7. Reforming the Language of Our Nation: Dictionaries, Identity, and the Tatar Lexical Revolution, 1900–1970

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. List of Illustrations ix
5. Introduction: Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands 1
6. 1. Making Minorities in the Eurasian Borderlands: A Comparative Perspective from the Russian and Ottoman Empires 17
7. Part One: Negations of Belonging
8. 2. Bloody Belonging: Writing Transcaspia into the Russian Empire 35
9. 3. The Armenian Genocide of 1915: Lineaments of a Comparative History 48
10. 4. “Do You Want Me to Exterminate All of Them or Just the Ones Who Oppose Us?”: The 1916 Revolt in Semirech′e 65
11. 5. “What Are They Doing? After All, We’re Not Germans”: Expulsion, Belonging, and Postwar Experience in the Caucasus 80
12. Part Two: Belonging via Standardization
13. 6. Developing a Soviet Armenian Nation: Refugees and Resettlement in the Early Soviet South Caucasus 97
14. 7. Reforming the Language of Our Nation: Dictionaries, Identity, and the Tatar Lexical Revolution, 1900–1970 112
15. 8. Speaking Soviet with an Armenian Accent: Literacy, Language Ideology, and Belonging in Early Soviet Armenia 129
16. Part Three: Belonging and Mythmaking
17. 9. Making a Home for the Soviet People: World War II and the Origins of the Sovetskii Narod 147
18. 10. Dismantling “Georgia’s Spiritual Mission”: Sacral Ethnocentrism, Cosmopolitan Nationalism, and Primordial Awakenings at the Soviet Collapse 162
19. 11. New Borders, New Belongings in Central Asia: Competing Visions and the Decoupling of the Soviet Union 182
20. Conclusion 199
21. Notes 207
22. Contributors 261
23. Index 263