Noack, Christian
In 'Allah’s Kolkhozes. Migration, De-Stalinisation, Privatisation and the New Muslim Congregations in the Soviet Realm (1950s-2000s),' the authors provide rich evidence for the close interplay between Soviet kolkhoz administrations and Islamic authorities on the local lore which prepared the ground for the emergence of alternative Muslim congregations in already the post-Stalinist Soviet Union. Christian Noack is associate professor of European Studies.
The larger part of the Muslim population in the post-Soviet space lives in rural areas. Other than in many parts of the contemporary Islamic world, alternative, often radical Islamic communities emerged outside the big urban agglomerations of the former USSR.
Eleven case studies trace the transformations of Soviet and post-Soviet Islam within the collectivized villages in Inner Russia, the Eastern Caucasus and Central Asia.
Allah’s Kolkhozes. Migration, De-Stalinisation, Privatisation and the New Muslim Congregations in the Soviet Realm (1950s-2000s)
- Stéphane A. Dudoignon and Christian Noack (eds)
- Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2013
- ISBN 978 38 79 97421 4