Secularisation in the USSR
- New Delhi Vikas. 1982
- 256p.
Even a casual glance at the history of Central Asia leaves us in no doubt that since the advent of Islam in Central Asia, its all- embracing role has been one of the determining factors in the life of Central Asians. The drive for secularisation in Central Asia was thus primarily linked with the maintenance and consolidation of the Russian Empire in the shape of a "proletarian multinational state controlled by the Russian communists". This is the most up-to-date study of the Soviet policy of secularisation and its implementation in Soviet Uzbekistan. The subject of this study concerns an important aspect of development of Soviet society during its formativeperiod, 1917-1938. A powerfully organised politica movement as well as one party state-structure committed to creating new bases of political power continue to be the main bulwark of the Soviet policy of secularisation. In short, this policy in the USSR has yet to acquire a self-generating character.