Wilson Center Experts
Shoshana Keller
Short-Term Grant
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Russia and Eurasia
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Hamilton College
Wilson Center Project(s):
The Struggle Against Islam in Uzbekistan, 1917 - 1941
Project Summary
the Soviet attempt to destroy Islam in Uzbekistan before World War II; how policy toward Islam was developed, executed, and by whom; the vast gulf between policy as it was designed in Moscow and as it was executed in Uzbekistan