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Chapter 1: Orientalism in the Soviet Eastern - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 1: Orientalism in the Soviet Eastern
Saidian Orientalism
Said outlines four principle dogmas of Orientalism (p.320-321)
'the absolute and systematic difference between the West, which is rational, developed, humane, superior, and the Orient, which is aberrant, undeveloped, inferior.' 320
'Another dogma is that abstractions about the Orient, particularly those based on texts representing a "classical" Oriental civilization, are always preferable to direct evidence drawn from modern Oriental realities.' 320
'A third dogma is that the Oriental is eternal, uniform, and incapable of defining itself; therefore it is always assumed that a highly generalized and systematic vocabulary for describing the Orient from a Western standpoint is inevitable and even scientifically "objective."' 320
'A fourth dogma is that the Orient is at bottom something either to be feared (the Yellow Peril, the Mongol hordes, the brown dominions) or to be controlled (by pacification, research and development, outright occupation whenever possible).' 321
'In short Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.' p.27
What will you be using Saidian Orientalism for?
Role of gender in Orientalism
Soviet gender policy
Orientalism in the secular nationalism of the late Soviet Union (Brezhnev Orientalism)
Brezhnev nationalities policy
Soviet Orientalism
Russian chauvinism
How to define?
legacy of imperial Russian Orientalism
'In the 1970s, once again, all attempts at projecting one's own history were maligned whereas Russian chauvinism was once more actively promoted by the state.' 217
publication of alternatives to official history were attempted, but short-lived. 217
assimilation as a key goal of Soviet policy (is assimilation a goal of British/French Orientalism?)
Basmachi