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Story, Time, and Dependent Nationhood in the Uzbek History Curriculum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Abstract

In the 1950s the Soviet school system stabilized and teachers incorporated non-Russian national histories into the elementary curriculum. Shoshana Keller argues that in Soviet Uzbekistan teachers defined Uzbek nationhood partly through historical narrative, which told children that the Uzbek people had existed continuously from ancient times but the nation achieved independence only under Russian/Soviet leadership. Children learned that for millennia Uzbek hero/martyrs had fought losing batdes against foreign invaders. The best Uzbeks were from the lower classes, but the nation had also produced high culture. Above all, children were taught to imagine themselves, not within Eurasian Islamic historical time, but within European historical time as envisioned by Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Iosif Stalin. What children learned about Uzbek history in school was central to the formation of a personal sense of national identity and to the larger Soviet project of nation building.

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Research in Uzbekistan was made possible by a fellowship from the American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, funded by the Title VIII Combined Research and Language Training Program, U.S. Department of State.

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20. “Qishloq maktablarining 6, 8, va 9-nchi sinflarida o'quv materiallarni planlashtirish to'ghrisida” (About planning teaching materials in village schools for the 6th, 8th, and 9th grades), O'qituvchilar gazetasi, 7january 1954, 4; “Tarix (programma) materiallarini qisqartib o'qitish haqida” (On teaching abbreviated history [curriculum] materials), O'qituvchilar gazetasi, 18 November 1956, 2. While this curriculum was for rural schools, it followed the standard plan for all Soviet schools. The hours devoted to each topic were for the entire school year. Brandenberger, National Bolshevism, 36.

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22. Not surprisingly, “the peoples of Central Asia met the historic decision with great joy.” H. Tursunov, “O'zbekiston Sovet Sotsialistik Respublikasining tashkil etilishi” (Organizing the Soviet Socialist Republic of Uzbekistan), Sovet maktabi, no. 8 (August 1954): 7-15.

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31. Ghulomov, Iahia Gh., Nabiev, Rashid N., and Vahobov, M. Gh., O'zbekiston SSR tarixi (birtomlik) (History of the Uzbek SSR, one volume) (Tashkent, 1958), 1821 Google Scholar; “4-sinfda SSSR tarixi o'rganish masalalariga doir” (Pertaining to questions of advising USSR history in the fourth grade), O'qituvchilar gazetasi, 7 August 1959, 2; “Sakkiz yilik maktabning o'quv programmalari haqida” (On die curriculum of the eight-year school), Sovet maktabi, no. 8 (August 1959): 29.

32. “4-sinfda,” 2; Ghulomov, Nabiev, and Vahobov, O'zbekiston SSR tarixi, 41. The most widely used series of Istoriia SSSR textbooks was edited by A. M. Pankratova, but Uzbek schools used two different series in Russian and Uzbek, one by S. P. Alekseev and V G. Kartsov and another by M. V. Nechkina.

33. G. Prives, “SSSR tarixi epizodik kursini o'qitishdagi izchillikka doir” (Pertaining to consistency in teaching the episodic course in Soviet history), O'qituvchilar gazetasi, 29 December 1959, 3.

34. Juvaini, who had different political imperatives, described Torobi in 1238 as “a sieve-maker, of whom it was said that in stupidity and ignorance he had not his equal.” Juvaini, Ata-Malik, Genghis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror, trans. Boyle, J. A. (Seattle, 1997), 109.Google Scholar

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36. Ghulomov, Nabiev, and Vahobov, O'zbekiston SSR tarixi, 186, 190-91. Al-Biruni (973-1048) was a mathematician and cartographer. Ibn Sino (980-1037), known to Europeans as Avicenna, was the greatest philosopher and physician of his day. Ulugh Bek (1394-1449) built a huge sextant in Samarkand and compiled the first original star chart since Ptolemy. He was decapitated on orders of his own son in a power struggle, although Soviet histories had him murdered by obscurantist clergy.

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39. Akilov and Teikh, Istoriia Uzbekskoi SSR, 10.

40. Oqilov and Teikh, “Arab istilochilariga qarshi kurash tarixidan” (History of the struggle against Arab invaders), O'qituvchilar gazetasi, 29 September 1959, 4; Iakh'ia Guliamov and Rashid Nabiev, Istoriia Uzbekskoi SSR: Uchebnoe posobie dlia 7-8-ikh klassov shkol Uzbekistana (Tashkent, 1971), 30; Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Jafar al-Narshakhi, TheHistory of Bukhara, trans. Richard Frye (Cambridge, Mass., 1954), 65-75.

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42. Oqilov and Teikh, “O'rta asrning buiuk olimlari va yozuvchilari” (Great writers and scholars of the Middle Ages), O'qituvchilar gazetasi, 9 October 1959, 4; Guliamov and Nabiev, Istoriia Uzbekskoi SSR, 37-39.

43. “8-10 sinflarda SSSR tarikhini o'rganishda mahalii materiallardan foidalanish metodlari” (Using methods in teaching Soviet history from local materials in grades 8-10), O'qituvchilargazetasi, 21 August 1960, 2; Efimov, “Abu Ali Ibn Sino tarbiia haqida,” 15-16; Akilov and Teikh, Istoriia Uzbekskoi SSR (1963), 18-21 and (1986), 11-14. Iran also claims these same scholars as great national heroes. Golnar Mehran, “The Presentation of the ‘Self and the ‘Other’ in Postrevolutionary Iranian School Textbooks,” in Keddie and Mathee, eds., Iran and the Surrounding World, 236.

44. Guliamov and Nabiev, Istoriia Uzbekskoi SSR, 16; Richard Taruskin, Defining Russia Musically: Historical and HermeneuticalEssays (Princeton, 1997), 27-28; Brandenberger, National Bolshevism, 86. The Greek source, Polyaenus, is described as the “auuior of a miscellany of stratagems selected on merit rather than authenticity.” Ilya Gershevitch, ed., The Cambridge History of Iran (Cambridge, Eng., 1985), 2:220.

45. Spitamenes's death acquired more political meaning with each new textbook edition: Ghulomov, Nabiev, and Vahobov, O'zbekiston SSR tarixi, 51, wrote that Spitamenes was killed by his in-laws. The 1963 Akilov and Teikh textbook said he was killed in battle (Istoriia Uzbekskoi SSR, 10). The 1971 textbook by Guliamov and Nabiev blamed Spitamenes's death on elites who felt threatened by him (istoriia Uzbekskoi SSR, 16-18).

46. Akilov and Teikh, Istoriia Uzbekskoi SSR, 11.

47. Abolala Soudavar, “The Early Safavids and Their Cultural Interactions with Surrounding States,” in Keddie and Mathee, eds., Iran and the Surrounding World, 94-98.

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50. Hanson, Time and Revolution, 20.

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54. Text and photographic examples from issues of O'qituvchilar gazetasi and Sovet maktabi from 1954 to 1961. Sadly, there was no photograph of children dancing the “Andijan polka” in November 1959. The earliest photo I have seen of hair bows was on die back cover of Sovet maktabi, no. 3 (March 1958).

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