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Marianne Kamp discusses her new book, Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan (Cornell 2024). Born between the early 1900s and the early 1920s, the collectivization generation were rural youth who participated in the transformation of Uzbekistan’s agricultural life in the 1930s as children or young adults. We meet Uzbeks whose fathers disappeared into the Stalinist gulag, who suffered from starvation and orphanhood, and we meet Uzbeks who told of embracing the collectivization project and of feeling rewarded with pay and recognition. The talk then turns to using oral history interviewing for research in international contexts.
Marianne Kamp is a social historian of modern Central Asia who uses oral history methods to explore transformations in everyday life during the Soviet period and since the independence of the “-stans” in 1991. She is the author of The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism (University of Washington Press 2006); of an edited translation, with Mariana Markova, Muslim Women of the Russian Empire: Vladimir and Maria Nalivkins’ nineteenth-century Fergana Valley Ethnography (Indiana University Press 2016); and of numerous articles and chapters. She serves as a book review editor for Central Asian Survey.
