Le Turkestan Russe: Une colonie comme les autres? ed. by Svetlana Gorshenina, Sergei Abashin (original) (raw)

The volume 'Le Turkestan Russe: Une colonie comme les autres?' edited by Svetlana Gorshenina and Sergei Abashin examines the complexities of the Russian Empire's rule over its Central Asian territories, addressing historical narratives often overshadowed by the concept of Russian exceptionalism. By providing a dual perspective on the colonizer and the colonized experience, the editors highlight the challenges faced in historiography due to the accessibility of Russian versus Turkic and Persian sources. The essays collected in the volume probe into the cultural dimensions of colonialism, questioning conventional classifications of empires and exploring the blurred lines between colonizer and colonized within the context of Russian Turkestan.