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    Routledge 1992; US$ 224.00

    In a unique survey, based on new census data, this book highlights the region's geographic, economic and ecological problems since 1945. more...

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    Routledge 2002; US$ 160.00

    A comprehensive introduction to the contemporary Russian Far East (RFE) offering an argument about federal relations and power in the state. It is the only easily available, single volume book to examine the RFE in such depth. more...

  • Islam and Colonialismby Will Myer

    RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 178.00

    This book questions the suitability of the colonial model for understanding Soviet Asia's recent political history and challenges many of the assumptions which underlay the adoption of such a model. more...

  • Central Asia and the Caucasusby Sanjyot Mehendale; Turaj Atabaki

    Routledge 2004; US$ 39.95

    This book focuses on the dynamics among transnational forces within and beyond Central Asia and explores the roles played by diaspora communities in Central Asia and the Caucasus. more...

  • Central Asiaby Tom Everett-Heath

    RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 58.95

    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. more...

  • Decline of Russian Culture in Central Asiaby David MacFadyen

    RoutledgeCurzon 2005; US$ 44.95

    Recent political changes in Central Asia, whereby the United States is replacing Russia as the dominant power, are having a profound effect on Russian speakers in the region. These people, formerly perceived as progressive and engaging with Europe, are now confronted by the erasure of their literary, musical, cinematic and journalistic culture, as local ethnic and American cultures become much stronger. This book examines the predicament of Russian culture in Central Asia, looking at literature, language, cinema, music, and religion. It argues that in fact the Soviet past was much more complex than the simplified, polarised rhetoric of the Cold War period allows; and also that the present situation, in which politicians from the former Soviet... more...

  • Russia's Protectorates in Central Asiaby Seymour Becker

    RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 44.95

    This book examines the Russian conquest of the ancient Central Asian khanates of Bukhara and Khiva in the 1860s and 1870s, and the relationship between Russia and the territories until their extinction as political entities in 1924. more...

  • Heart of Asiaby Edward Denison Ross; Frances Henry Skrine

    RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 178.00

    Originally published in 1899, The Heart of Asia is a definitive history of Central Asia from pre-history to the contemporary machinations of the Russian empire. more...

  • Uzbekistanby Neil J. Melvin

    Routledge 2000; US$ 52.95

    In this volume, the historical origins of Uzbekistan are explored and the range of political, economic and social challenges faced by the country since independence is charted. more...

  • Kazakhstanby Davé; Bhavna

    RoutledgeCurzon 2005; US$ 44.95

    This book presents an overview of post-Soviet Kazakhstan, focusing in particular on the attempts to build a national state. more...