Abstract

This article discusses the ‘red yurt’ campaigns in early Soviet Kazakhstan, in which party and state institutions sponsored mobile centres of Soviet culture in nomadic pastoralist communities. In conversation with other literature on nomadic encounters with the Soviet state, this article considers how red yurts sought to exemplify Soviet ‘culturedness’ (kul’turnost’) within nomadic ‘everyday life’ (byt)—two concepts that have, so far, been discussed primarily in the Russian context. It argues that the campaigns were less antagonistic towards nomadic lifestyles and more embedded in regional discourse than has often been assumed, although realities on the ground complicated idealistic plans.

摘要

本文讨论了苏联早期哈萨克斯坦的“红色蒙古包”运动，在这些运动中，党和国家机构在游牧牧民社区赞助了苏联文化的流动中心。在与游牧遭遇其他文学与苏联国家的对话，本文认为红色蒙古包如何寻求例证苏联“culturedness”（“kul'turnost日常生活‘（游牧内）’ BYT有，到目前为止） -两个概念，主要是在俄罗斯语境中讨论的。它认为，尽管当地的现实使理想主义计划复杂化，但这些运动对游牧生活方式的敌意较少，而且比人们通常认为的更深入地融入区域话语中。