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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450436603321

Titolo

Central Asia : aspects of transition / / edited by Tom Everett-Heath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-79822-2

1-135-79823-0

1-280-02267-1

0-7007-0957-6

0-203-45135-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Central Asia research forum

Altri autori (Persone)

Everett-HeathTom

Disciplina

958/.04

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Asia, Central History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-281) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Turkfront: Frunze and the development of Soviet counter-insurgency in Central Asia; The Kokand Autonomy, 1917  18: political background, aims and reasons for failure; Ethno-territorial claims in the Ferghana Valley during the process of national delimitation, 1924  7; Land and water 'reform' in the 1920s: agrarian revolution or social engineering?; Nation building in Turkey and Uzbekistan: the use of language and history in the creation of national identity; Nation building and identity in the Kyrgyz Republic

The use of history: the Soviet historiography of Khan Kenesary KasimovSoviet development in Central Asia: the classic colonial syndrome?; Environmental issues in Central Asia: a source of hope or despair?; Instability and identity in a post-Soviet world: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan; The Uzbek Mahalla: between state and society; 'Fundamentalism' in Central Asia: reasons, reality and prospects; Water: the difficult path to a sustainable future for Central Asia; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the transition Central Asia underwent in the twentieth century following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Soviet colonial legacy



and the attempts of new states to build secular states within the radical Islamic world.