The Logic of Clan Politics in Central Asia
Subtitle: regime transformation from the Soviet to the post-Soviet Era
By: Kathleen Collins.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Clans -- Asia, Central.; Asia, Central -- Social conditions -- 1917-1991.; Asia, Central -- Social conditions -- 1991-; Asia, Central -- Politics and government -- 1991-; Soviet Union -- Relations -- Asia, Central.; Asia, Central -- Relations -- Soviet Union.; Asia, Central -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to political development and transition in Central Asia; title: The logic of clan politics: a framework for understanding politics in clan-based societies; title: Colonialism to Stalinism: the dynamic between clans and the state; title: The informal politics of Central Asia from Brezhnev through Gorbachev; title: Transition from above or below? (1990; title: 1991); title: Central Asia's transition: 1991; title: 1995; title: Central Asia's regime transformation: part I; title: Central Asia's regime transformation: part II; title: Positive and negative political trajectories in clan-based societies; title: Conclusions.