A Muslim Woman Officer in the Soviet Army During the Soviet-Afghan War. A Soviet “Anti-Hero”
This research note based on an anthropological fieldwork retraces the life of Mamura, an Uzbek woman who became a hero among her peers, Afghan war veterans. Born in the 1960s in Southern Uzbekistan, into the Muslim faith, Mamura was a Komsomol and volunteered for Afghanistan, where she served in par...
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| Language: | deu |
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Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Sociétés et les Institutions Post-Soviétiques
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/pipss/4157 |