Fragile Conviction : Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan

How does ideology function during periods of political and economic turmoil? This book, based on long-term ethnographic research in a destitute former mining town in Kyrgyzstan, testifies to the precariousness of life in the former Soviet republics in the decades after the collapse of the USSR. It f...

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Main Author: Pelkmans, Mathijs (auth)
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Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press 20170214
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