Legitimation through self-victimization. The “Uzbek cotton affair” and its repression narrative (1989-1991)

Cahiers d'histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique (ex. Cahiers du Monde Russe). 2017. Vol. 58. No. 4. P. 639–668.

Cucciolla R. M.

The cotton affair, which was followed after 1983, resulted in the memory of the past ruling elite. This is a massive moralization campaign of provoking disability and a post-communal trauma narrative undergirding. Karimov's ideological shift (1989-1991) saw the CPUz move from loyal communist orthodoxy towards nationalist ideological split. There are no limits on the number of people living in the country. It is exemplified by the Uzbek country and it is creating a sensitive identity. The political events of the late 1980s are “characterized by such terms as“ colonial, ”“ purge, ”“ new terror, ”“ renewed 1937, ”“ Uzbek genocide ”; the witch hunt against the CPSU; He was a “national hero.” It was a “national hero.” in the harsh political rhetoric of the 1980s - by “terms,“ purge, ”“ new terror, ”“ renewed 1937, ”“ Uzbek genocide ”; the witch hunt against the CPSU; He was a “national hero.” It was a “national hero.” in the harsh political rhetoric of the 1980s - by “terms,“ purge, ”“ new terror, ”“ renewed 1937, ”“ Uzbek genocide ”; the witch hunt against the CPSU; He was a “national hero.” It was a “national hero.”

Keywords: коррупция, repression, corruption, Узбекистан, historical memory, историческая память, репрессия, постколониализм, Uzbekistan, post-Soviet, Uzbek Cotton Affair, Mustaqillik, Sharaf Rashidov, Post-Colonialism, хлопковое дело, Узбекское хлопковое дело, Мустақиллик, Шараф Рашидов, постсоветский Узбекистан