A Co-traveler’s Essay: Boris Pilnyak, Facts & Myths of Sovietizing Tajikistan
The article focuses on Boris Pilnyak’s circle of travelogues «Tajikistan, the Seventh Soviet Republic». We discuss the writer’s ambivalent attitude toward the periphery area of the Soviet State. Praising the establishment of Soviet Tajikistan and fulfilling the Communist Party task Boris Pilnyak at the same time adores with aesthetics of Tajik antics, social traditionalism, remnants of religion, living outside the ‘civilized’ world - traditional elements of ‘colonial’ discourse.