{"id":4824,"date":"2015-02-08T19:47:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T00:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2016-02-01T14:14:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T19:14:47","slug":"modern-mobilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/02\/08\/modern-mobilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Mobilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What makes a regime a modern mobilization state and not a colonial empire? Adeeb Khalid answers this question in <em>Backwardness and the Quest for Colonization: Early Soviet Central Asia in Comparative Perspective<\/em>. Khalid states that empires, such as Britain, France and the Netherlands \u201cwere based on the perpetuation of difference between rulers and the ruled\u201d, where as modern mobilization states \u201chomogenize populations in order to attain universal goals\u201d. Examples of modern mobilization include the Soviet Union and the Kemalist regime in Turkey. These two modern mobilization regimes both emerged after World War I after the collapse of the European political order, and both regimes pursued shock modernization in an attempt to quickly modernize and create a universal culture. Modern mobilization worked to transform the citizens of the regimes to create unification and equality for all, but in the attempt to equalize citizens many rights were taken away from different groups. In the Soviet Union ideas on new government were being spread through propaganda. Many were attracted to these new ideas quickly replaced the old transforming the life\u2019s of citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes a regime a modern mobilization state and not a colonial empire? Adeeb Khalid answers this question in Backwardness and the Quest for Colonization: Early Soviet Central Asia in Comparative Perspective. Khalid states that empires, such as Britain, France &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/02\/08\/modern-mobilization\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2540,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110561],"tags":[110641,110643],"class_list":["post-4824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hist254-archive","tag-adeeb-khalid","tag-modern-mobilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}