The Battle of Gökdepe in the Turkmen post-Soviet historical discourse
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2014.964940" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2014.964940</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2014.964940" target="_blank" >10.1080/02634937.2014.964940</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Battle of Gökdepe in the Turkmen post-Soviet historical discourse
Original language description
The Battle of Gökdepe is considered to be a turning point in Turkmenistan's contemporary historiography. The post-Soviet of?cial Turkmen historiography of the event came from these foundations, but used its own mythological approach. As a result, the contemporary narrative of the Gökdepe defeat turned into a victory for the Akhal Tekke (and broadly Turkmen) nation. The paper argues that the ?rst and partly the second presidents of Turkmenistan incorporated the battle into their own personality cults, afact which is still speci?c to the Central Asian context, albeit not unique in world history. In particular, the ?rst president usurped the myth and connected it with his own historical narrative. The second president continues this in the frames of thealready settled political culture in the country, adapting the Gökdepe myth to create his own ideological story. Therefore, the appropriation of the historical event in Turkmenistan represents a speci?c (albeit not unique) case of this ki
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AB - History
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Central Asian Survey
ISSN
0263-4937
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
34
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
149-161
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84929357682