Shoshana Keller

Former Short-Term Grant

Professional Affiliation

Assistant Professor, Hamilton College

Wilson Center Project

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