Browsing Articles by Author "Penati, Beatrice"

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On the Local Origins of the Soviet Attack on “Religious” Waqf in the Uzbek SSR (1927)

Penati, Beatrice (Acta Slavica Iaponica, 2015)

This article studies when, how, and by whom the decision to nationalise land properties the rent from which supported mosques, shrines, and hostels (rather than schools) was first taken in Soviet Uzbekistan. Through a ...
On the Soviet discovery of rural Central Asia. The Karp commission in context

Penati, Beatrice (Revue Monde(s). Histoire, Espaces, Relations, 2013)

In 1925, the USSR communist party’s Central Asian Bureau ordered an inquiry on the countryside, resulting in the series The Modern Central Asian Village. It combined pre-revolutionary methods with Soviet attention to social ...