Notes
1 Alexei Yurchak identifies the problem of binaries in Soviet history in Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 4-8.
2 Marianne Kamp, The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006), esp. ch. 7.
3 Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005), 14.
4 On internal colonization, see Alexander Etkind, Internal Colonization: Russia’s Imperial Experience (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011). On the ‘imperial turn,’ see Michael David-Fox, Peter Holquist, and Alexander M. Martin, ‘The Imperial Turn,’ Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 7, no. 4 (2006): 705-12.