{"title":"Ethnography, Demography and Assimilation – How Talysh Community was Made to Disappear in Soviet Azerbaijan","authors":"Milka Angelova","doi":"10.37708/bf.swu.v31i2.9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The article explores one of the examples of assimilatory politics to the national minorities in Soviet Azerbaijan, and in particular to the Talysh community. In the 1930s, Talish were the fifth largest national minority in the country. The Talysh nationality erased from Soviet census categorization in 1959. Data from this census were used to support the decade-long political myth of \"voluntary assimilation\" of the Talish. The article also presents the instrumentalization of political manipulations in scientific discourses - Talysh minority were also recategorized by the ethnographers who consulted on census design and supported these government politics until 1989.","PeriodicalId":40507,"journal":{"name":"Balkanistic Forum","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Balkanistic Forum","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v31i2.9","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The article explores one of the examples of assimilatory politics to the national minorities in Soviet Azerbaijan, and in particular to the Talysh community. In the 1930s, Talish were the fifth largest national minority in the country. The Talysh nationality erased from Soviet census categorization in 1959. Data from this census were used to support the decade-long political myth of "voluntary assimilation" of the Talish. The article also presents the instrumentalization of political manipulations in scientific discourses - Talysh minority were also recategorized by the ethnographers who consulted on census design and supported these government politics until 1989.
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"Balkanistic Forum" is published since 1992 as a yearly edition of the “Seminar for Balkan Studies and Specialization” to the South-Western University “Neofyt Rilski” Blagoevgrad. Since 1995 it is published in thematic issues -3 issues per year. The main task of the Journal is to provide free forum for discussing important historical and present problems of the Balkans in European and wider context. It is designed as an interdisciplinary journal uniting the efforts of specialists in History, Sociology, Literature, Anthropology, Linguistics, Culture Studies.
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