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... in the Muslim Caucasus Leah Feldman Now we summon you to the first genuine holy war, under the red banner of the Communist International. We summon you to a holy war for your own well-­being, for your freedom, for your life...

...Leah Feldman This article seeks to dislocate Orientalism from its Anglo-French origin by investigating the problem of its theorization in the context of the Russian Empire. I frame Russian Orientalism through the representation of the Caucasus in the Russian imagination as a border space between...

...Robert J. C. Young Abstract The complex relations between the Soviet Union and the Soviet states of the Caucasus that were formerly parts of the Ottoman and Persian empires offer examples of complex cultural and political relations of antagonism and appropriation that go beyond simple binaries...

... is associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Chicago. Her work explores the aesthetics and politics of literary and cultural entanglements that traverse the Caucasus and Central Asia—from the formation of the Soviet empire to its collapse. She is the author of On the Threshold...

..., Marxism, Communism, and Translation. Leah Feldman is assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Chicago. She is the author of On the Threshold of Eurasia: Orientalism and Revo- lutionary Aesthetics in the Caucasus (2018). Her current research interests include affect in late...

... boundary 2 43:3 (2016) DOI 10.1215/01903659-­3572514 © 2016 by Duke University Press 338 boundary 2 / August 2016 book projects: one on early twentieth-­century Turkish and Soviet literary encoun- ters, and another on the literatures of revolution in the Muslim Caucasus from 1905 through 1907. Leah...

... by Duke University Press 214 boundary 2 / Summer 2012 ticularly Muslim writers of the Caucasus. Her project investigates the discourses of secularism and modernity in shaping intersecting narratives of identity. More broadly, her work explores the theoretical confluence of semiotics, postcolonial...

... relies on the European energy market, and its internal economy increas- ingly depends on the cheap labor of legal and illegal migrants from Ukraine, Belarus, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. 2. Alexander Etkind, “Mourning and Melancholia in Putin’s Russia,” in Memory, Conflict and Social Media, ed...

..., the Oxford Handbook of Global boundary 2 40:2 (2013) DOI 10.1215/01903659-2266374 © 2013 by Duke University Press 244 boundary 2 / Summer 2013 Modernisms, and Jadaliyya. She is currently writing a book on the translation of communist thought and practice in the Muslim Caucasus. Frances Ferguson...

... sets of colonial and colonized intelligentsias within these two empires, with the discursive elaboration of Islamic “peripheries”—the Arab Near East in the former instance, and the Muslim Caucasus in the latter—helping to define the “metropolitan” center in each instance and, conversely, native...

... Poetics in the Caucasus . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Foucault Michel . 1970 . The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences . New York : Random House . Gandhi Leela . 2006 . Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-siècle Radicalism...

... in the Caucasus . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Fenghi Fabrizio . 2020 . It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press . Frank Thomas . 1997 . The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture...

... within the economies of its master powers. For instance, the formidable textile works of Łódz depended on cotton from the Russian Caucasus as its raw material and on Germany as its market. The former was in the midst of a civil war and the latter in the middle of economic collapse...

... that were once colonies. . . . I do not think that the relation between the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe . . . can be treated in this way. (The Soviet relation to Central Asia or the Caucasus is a completely different thing, a case of colonial empire par excellence26 The introduction...

... it is true that language and writing systems had been serious concerns for the Turkic-­speaking peoples of western and central Asia since the nineteenth-century­ extension of Russian colonial rule into the Caucasus, the Kazakh steppe, and Turkestan. (Kazan and Astrakhan, by the Volga River...