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Central Asia

One Hundred Thirty Years of Russian Dominance, A Historical Overview

Edward A Allworth editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Duke University Press

Published:6th Jan '95

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An expert tool for all those interested in the new Muslim states in Central Asia

For centuries, Central Asia has been a leading civilization, an Islamic heartland, and a geographical link between West and East. This work provides a comprehensive survey of the history of the impact of Russian rule upon the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural life of this diverse region.For centuries, Central Asia has been a leading civilization, an Islamic heartland, and a geographical link between West and East. After a long traditional history, it is now in a state of change. With the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, five newborn Central Asian states have emerged in place of the former Soviet Central Asia and Afghanistan. Central Asia provides the most comprehensive survey of the history of the impact of Russian rule upon the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural life of this diverse region. Together, these essays convey a sense of the region’s community as well as the divisive policies that have affected it for so long.
Now in its third edition (it was first published in 1967 and revised in 1989), this new edition of Central Asia has been updated to include a new preface, a revised and updated bibliography, and a final chapter that brings the book up to 1994 in considering the crucial problems that stem from a deprivation of sovereign, indigenous leadership over the past 130 years. This volume provides a broad and essential background for understanding what has led up to the late twentieth-century configuration of Central Asia.

"A very useful background text... This work will long remain an expert tool for all those interested in the new Muslim states in Central Asia." Jacob B. Landau, Middle Eastern Studies From reviews of the second edition: "The best available survey of Soviet Central Asia."--Stuart Thompstone, European History Quarterly "Excellent background reading..."--Mervyn Matthews, Asian Affairs

ISBN: 9780822315216

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 903g

672 pages

Third Edition