Ujguři – starobylý národ, nebo produkt sovětské národnostní politiky?

how state interventions facilitated the integration of different ethnic groups into a new Uyghur
group. It will also explain how such interventions can facilitate assimilation or, conversely, act
against it. Like other USSR nations, the Uyghur nation was constructed as the result of a political
decision; however, the primordialist aspect has always been emphasised, according to which the
nation should have existed forever. The Uyghur ethnonym, although adopted following a decision
taken by Soviet power, became the designation of a large nation over subsequent decades and
most Uyghurs now live outside the former USSR. The concept of a unified Uyghur nation was also
adopted by both China and the Uyghur movement after World War II. Although the state has the
means to construct a new nation, a number of other factors can change its efforts entirely; this is
shown in the paper through the example of two Kyrgyz regions populated by the Uyghur minority.