Central Asia After the Empire

A succinct survey of the history and peoples of the new Central Asian republics.

A succinct survey of the history and peoples of the new Central Asian republics.

Part 1 Ethnicity, religion and the nation state in Central Asia
ethnic and cultural continuity
from poliethnicity to nation state
Russians in Asia
Islam in Central Asia - the sleeper awakens
custodians of tradition - the Mahalla and the Mosque. Part 2 The Soviet era: "white gold" - the cotton dictatorship
land and people - the time-bomb (Uzbekistan case)
urban crisis and ruralization
industrial crisis. Part 3 After the empire - between the etatcracy and the ethnocracy - the cities and industries in Post-imperial Uzbekistan: the empire's orphans
ethno-privitization
foreign capital - tool of modernization or conservation? Part 4 In search of political stability - from state socialism to national authoritarianism: post-communism - Asian dilemmas - case A - Uzbekistan
national democrats - triumph turned defeat
from partocracy towards conservative authoritanism - the Karimov path
fundamentalism - case B - Kazakhstan
towards an ethnocratic state? Part 5 Regional perspectives, integration and foreign policy options.