Aleksandr A. Semenov (1873-1958): Colonial Power, Orientalism and Soviet Nation-building

Thesis

This study explores the life of the prominent Russian Orientalist and colonial administrator Aleksandr Semenov (1873-1958). In the course of his long and versatile career in Central Asia – where he came to in 1901 as a low-ranking member of Turkestan’s colonial administration, and where he died in 1958 as the first director of the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of Tajikistan’s Academy of Sciences – Semenov participated in the transformation of the region from a Tsarist c...

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Authors: Battis, M

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Tajikistan; Early Soviet Union; Soviet Nationalities Policy; Colonial Knowledge; Russian Orientalism; Central Asian History; Late Imperial Russia
• Subjects: Russian Studies; History; Central Asian Studies