Post-Soviet Central Asia
By: edited by Touraj Atabaki and John O'Kane.
Contributors: Atabaki, Touraj.; O'Kane, John.; International Institute for Asian Studies.
Publisher: Tauris Academic Stuides in association with the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, Amsterdam
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London ; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Nationalism -- Asia, Central; Post-communism -- Asia, Central; Asia, Central -- Foreign relations -- 1991-; Asia, Central -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Social and political reorganisation in Central Asia: transition from pre-colonial to post-colonial society / Shirin Akiner; title: The impediments to the development of civil societies in Central Asia / Touraj Atabaki; title: Russia and former Soviet Central Asia: the attitude towards regional integrity / Vyacheslav Ya. Belokrenitsky; title: Foreign policy perspectives of the Central Asian states / Tatiana Shaumian; title: Iran and Central Asia / Tchangiz Pahlevan; title: Turkish policy in Central Asia / Gareth M. Winrow; title: Towards better mutual comprehension among Turkic-speakers / Edward Tryjarski; title: The politics of oil and the quest for stability: the Caspian Sea / Tadeusz Swietochowski; title: Literature and the nation in contemporary Uzbekistan / Roberta M. Micallef; title: The assertion of Uzbek national identity: nativization or state-building process? / Victoria Koroteyeva and Ekaterina Makarova; title: Language and culture in transition in Uzbekistan / Cay Dollerup; title: Turkmenistan's place in Central Asia and the world / Rainer Freitag-Wirminghaus; title: The Hazara of Afghanistan: the thorny path towards political unity, 1978-1992 / Kristian Berg Harpviken; title: Ethni c identity versus nationalism: the Uzbeks of northeastern Afghanistan and the Afghan state / Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek; title: Nawruz in Tajikistan: ritual or politics? / Ali Attar; title: The early twentieth-century Kazakh intelligentsia: in search of national identity / Gulnar Kendirbaeva; title: Ethnic religious resurgence in Xinjiang / Kulbhushan Warikoo; title: A Central Asian-Chinese ethnic melting pot: the case of the Gansu corridor / Sabira Stålberg; title: Nations transgressing nation-states: constructing Dungan, Uygur and Kazakh identities across China, Central Asia and Turkey / Dru C. Gladney; title: Past and present of a Manchu tribe: the Sibe / Liliya Gorelova; title: The Tuvans in China: ethnic identity and language / Marina Mongush; title: Central Asia in the minds of the Mughals / Richard Foltz; title: Russian slaves in 17th-century Bukhara / Audrey Burton; title: The royal clan of the Turks and the problem of its designation / Sergey G. Kljyashtorny; title: Burial sites in Hexi / Susanne Kohl.