Historiography and Nation-Building among Turkic Populations / edited by Birgit N. Schlyter.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : Central Asian and Turkic History Revisited -- On Oral History of Soviet Past in Central Asia : Re-Collecting, Reflecting and Re-Imagining / Timur Dadabaev -- The Coverage of Central Asia in Turkey : The 1990s and Beyond / Büşra Ersanlı -- In Search of New Historiographies for Ex-Soviet Turkic States : Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan / Y. Emre Gürbüz -- History-Writing and History-Making in Azerbaijan : Some Reflections on the First Two Decades of Independence / Zaur Gasimov -- Image and Influence : The Politics of Nation-Branding in Uzbekistan / Anita Sengupta -- Linguistic and Social Contradictions within Uzbek National Identity / Rano Turaeva-Hoehne -- The Status of Uzbek as " National Language" / Birgit N. Schlyter -- Language and the State in Late Qing Xinjiang / Eric T. Schluessel.

This book marks the end of a long-term project (2007–2014) for the promotion of Central Asia research in the post-Soviet era. The project was conducted within the framework of Stockholm International Program for Central Asian Studies, SIPCAS, initiated at Stockholm University and conducted since 2012 from the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul with funding from The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education.