How the Soviet State Built the Islam It Feared: Religion, Control, and the Roots of Radicalism in Uzbekistan
The standard account blames post-Soviet Uzbekistan’s religious conservatism and radicalization on external forces — Gulf money, imported ideology, the collapse of the Soviet order. That account is incomplete. Today’s radicalism cannot be explained by the Soviet past alone, but that past matters and is worth naming. The Soviet state did […]