| Abstrakt: |
The end of the Soviet Union, however, meant that Turkmen would henceforth be invested with cultural and political capital, with the state explicitly using language as a means of consolidating Turkmen national identity and reorienting the country away from Moscow. "Language and subsequent cultural policies not only symbolized the importance of the national language", Clement explains, "they concurrently provided ethnic Turkmen with opportunity and encouragement to seize a form of power that was long beyond their reach.". [Extracted from the article] |
