Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION xv
6. INTRODUCTION. Tribe, Class, and Nation in Turkmenistan 1
7. PART I. MAKING A NATION
8. CHAPTER ONE. Sources of Identity among the Turkmen 17
9. CHAPTER TWO. Assembling the Nation: The Creation of a Turkmen National Republic 41
10. CHAPTER THREE. Ethnic Preferences and Ethnic Conflict 70
11. CHAPTER FOUR. Helpers, Not Nannies 100
12. CHAPTER FIVE. Dueling Dialects 129
13. PART II: CONSTRUCTING SOCIALISM
14. CHAPTER SIX. A Nation Divided 167
15. CHAPTER SEVEN. Cotton and Collectivization 197
16. CHAPTER EIGHT. Emancipation of the Unveiled 221
17. CONCLUSION. From Soviet Republic to Independent Nation-State 261
18. GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS 267
19. BIBLIOGRAPHY 269
20. INDEX 287