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Some Recent General Literature in English on Central Eurasia

Updated: March 3, 1998

Adshead, Samuel Adrian Miles

1992  Central Asia in world history.  Basingstoke, Eng.: Macmillan.  291 pp.

Afghanistan and post-Soviet Central Asia: Prospects for political evolution and the role of Islam

1992  Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace.  vi+42 p.  United States Institute of Peace.

Ahrari, Mohammed E.

1996  The new great game in Muslim Central Asia.  Washington, DC: National Defense University.  90 pp. maps.  /McNair paper, 47/.  Institute for National Strategic Studies.

Akchurin, Marat

1992  Red odyssey: A journey through the Soviet republics.  New York: Harper-Collins.  viii+404 pp. ill. map.

Akiner, Shirin

1995  The formation of Kazakh identity: From tribe to nation-state.  London: Royal Institute of International Affairs.  83 pp.  /Former Soviet South Project/.

Akiner, Shirin, ed.

1991  Cultural change and continuity in Central Asia.  London/New York: Kegan Paul.  ix+377 pp.; Papers from conference on: Tradition and Change in Central Asia, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, April 1987.  Central Asia Research Forum, School of Oriental and African Studies.

1994  Political and economic trends in Central Asia.  London/New York: British Academic Press.  207 pp.

Allworth, Edward Alfred, ed.

1994  Central Asia: 130 years of Russian dominance: A historical overview.  Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Allworth, Edward Alfred, ed.

1994  Muslim communities reemerge: Historical perspectives on nationality, politics, and opposition in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.  Durham, N.C./London: Duke University Press.  /Central Asia book series/.

Altstadt, Audrey L.

1992  The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and identity under Russian rule.  Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press.  331 pp. map.  /Studies of nationalities/.

Amnesty International

1993  Tadzhikistan: Hidden terror: Political killings, 'disappearances' and torture since December 1992.  New York: Amnesty International.  8p.

Zahir ad-din Muhammad Babur

1996  The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, prince and emperor.  Trans. by W. M. Thackston.  New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.  472p. ill. map.

Baldick, Julian

1993  Imaginary Muslims: The Uwaysi Sufis of Central Asia.  London: I. B. Tauris.

Balzer, Marjorie Mandelstam, ed.

1995  Culture incarnate: Native anthropology form Russia.  Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.

Banuazizi, Ali, and Myron Weiner, eds.

1994  The new geopolitics of Central Asia and its borderlands.  Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press.  248p. maps.

Barnett, A. Doak

1993  China's far west: Four decades of change.  Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.

Bashiri, Iraj

1994  Firdowsi's Shahname 1000 years after.  Dushanbe.  314p.

Black, Cyril Edwin, Louis Benjamin Dupree, Elizabeth Endicott-West, Daniel C. Matuszewski, Eden Naby and Arthur N. Waldron

1991  The modernization of Inner Asia.  Armonk, NY/London: M. E. Sharpe.  xviii+405p. maps.  /Studies on modernization of the Center of International Studies at Princeton University/.

Bourdeaux, Michael, ed.

1995  The politics of religion in Russia and the new states of Eurasia.  Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe.  321p.  /The international politics of Eurasia, 3/.

Bremmer, Ian A. and Ray Taras, eds.

1993  Nations and politics in the Soviet successor states.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  577p.

Brower, Daniel R., and Edward J. Lazzerini, eds.

1997  Russia's Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700-1917.  Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press.

Broxup, Marie Bennigsen, ed.

1992  The North Caucasus barrier: The Russian advance towards the Muslim world.  London: Hurst & Company.  252p. maps.

Burton, Joan Audrey

1991  The Bukharans.  London/New York: Kegan Paul International.

Canfield, Robert Leroy, ed.

1991  Turko-Persia in historical perspective.  Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press.  xiv+256p. maps.  /School of American Research advanced seminar series/.

Carrére d'Encausse, Hélène

1995  The nationality question in the Soviet Union and Russia.  Oslo/Cambridge, MA: Scandinavian University Press.  /Norwegian Nobel Institute lecture series/.

Central Asian archives: A handlist of microfilms of manuscripts

[1996?]  [Bloomington, Ind.].  81p.  Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies.

Chenciner, Robert

1997  Daghestan: Tradition and survival.  Richmond: Curzon Press.

Chinn, Jeff

1996  Russians as the new minority: Ethnicity and nationalism in the Soviet successor states.  Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.

Colton, Timothy J. and Robert C. Tucker, eds.

1995  Patterns in post-Soviet leadership.  Boulder, Colo.: Westview.  258p.  /The John M. Olin critical issues series/.

Crimean Tatars: Repatriation and conflict prevention

1996  New York: Open Society Institute.  95p.

Critchlow, James

1991  Nationalism in Uzbekistan: A Soviet republic's road to sovereignty.  Boulder: Westview Press.  xxviii+231p. map.

Dawisha, Adeed and Karen Dawisha, eds.

1995  The making of foreign policy in Russia and the new states of Eurasia.  Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe.  /The International Politics of Eurasia, 4/.

Dawisha, Karen and Bruce Parrott, eds.

1997  Conflict, cleavage, and change in Central Asia and the Caucasus.  Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press.  /Authoritarianism and democratization in Postcommunist Societies, 4/.

Denber, Rachel

1993  Human rights in Tajikistan in the wake of the civil war.  New York: Human Rights Watch.  xxiii+64p. map.

Denber, Rachel, ed.

1992  The Soviet nationality reader: The disintegration in context.  Boulder, Colo.: Westview.  631p.

DeWeese, Devin A.

1994  Islamization and native religion in the Golden Horde: Baba Túkles and conversion to Islam in historical and epic tradition.  University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State Univ.  638p.  //.

Drobizheva, Leokadiia Mikhailovna, Rose Gottemoeller, Catherine McArdle Kelleher and Lee Walker, eds.

1996  Ethnic conflict in the post-Soviet world: Case studies and analysis.  Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe.  365p. ill.

Ehteshami, Anoushiravan

1994  From the Gulf to Central Asia: Players in the new great game.  Exeter: University of Exeter Press.  xvi+242 p. ill. maps.

Eickelman, Dale F.

1997  The Middle East and Central Asia: An anthropological approach.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Eickelman, Dale F., ed.

1993  Russia's Muslim frontiers: New directions in cross-cultural analysis.  Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press.  206p. map.  /Indiana series in Arab and Islamic studies/.

Ferdinand, Peter, ed.

1994  The new Central Asia and its neighbours.  London: Royal Institute of International Affairs.  120p. map.  /Chatham House papers/.

Fierman, William

1991  Language planning and national development: The Uzbek experience.  Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.  xiii+358p.  /Contributions to the sociology of language, 60/.

Fierman, William, ed.

1991  Soviet Central Asia: The failed transformation.  Pref. by T. Rakowska-Harmstone.  Boulder: Westview Press.  xx+328p. map bibl.

Fletcher, Joseph Francis (Jr.)

1995  Studies on Chinese and Islamic Inner Asia.  B. F. Manz, ed.  Aldershot, Eng.: Variorum.  ill. port.

Frye, Richard Nelson

1996  The heritage of Central Asia: From antiquity to the Turkish expansion.  Princeton: Markus Wiener.  263p. ill.

Fuller, Graham E.

1992  Central Asia: The new geopolitics.  Santa Monica, Calif.: Rand.  86p.

Gammer, Moshe

1994  Muslim resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan.  London: Frank Cass.  452p. ill. maps.

Golden, Peter B.

1992  An introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples.  Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz.  474p.

Gross, Jo-Ann, ed.

1992  Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of identity and change.  Durham/London: Duke University Press.  224p.  /Central Asia book series/.

Haghayeghi, Mehrdad

1995  Islam and politics in Central Asia.  New York: St. Martin's Press.  264p.

Helsinki Watch Committee

1991  Conflict in the Soviet Union: Tadzhikistan.  New York:  Human Rights Watch.  79p.: ill.  /A Helsinki Watch report/.

1993  Human rights in Uzbekistan.  New York.  61p.

Herzig, Edmund

1995  Iran and the former Soviet south.  London: Royal Institute of International Affairs.  60p.  /Former Soviet South Project/.

Hill, Fiona and Pamela Jewett

1994  'Back in the USSR': Russia's intervention in the internal affairs of the former Soviet republics and the implicaitons for United States policy toward Russia.  Cambridge, Mass.: Ethnic Conflict Project.

Hiro, Dilip

1994  Between Marx and Mohammed: Changing face of Central Asia.  London: Harper Collins.

Hopkirk, Peter

1992  The great game: The struggle for empire in Central Asia.  New York/Tokyo: Kodanshe.  564p. ill.

Human Rights Watch

1992  Human Rights Watch world report 1993: Events of 1992.  New York: Human Rights Watch.  393p. maps.

Hunter, Shireen T.

1994  The Transcaucasus in transition: Nation-building and conflict. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies.  /Significant issues series, 16/.  xiv+223p.

Hyman, Anthony

1994  Power and politics in Central Asia's new republics.  London.  /Conflict Studies, 273/.  Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism.

Ibrahim, Diloram

1992  The islamization of Central Asia.  Leicester, Eng.: Islamic Foundation.  32p.

Kaiser, Robert J.

1994  The geography of nationalism in Russia and the USSR.  Princeton: Princeton University Press.  xviii+471p. maps.

Kangas, Roger D.

1994  Uzbekistan in the twentieth century: Political development and evolution of power.  New York: St. Martin's.

Kemper, Michael, Anke von Kügelgen and Dmitrii Ermakov, eds.

1996  Muslim culture in Russia and Central Asia from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.  Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag.  482p.  /Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, 200/.

Khan, Muhammad Iqbal

1992  Muslims of Central Asia and Russia: A brief introduction.  Leicester, Eng.: Islamic Foundation.

Khazanov, Anatolii Mikhailovich

1995  After the USSR: Ethnicity, nationalism, and politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States.  Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press.  311p. 5 maps.

Kirimli, Hakan

1996  National movements and national identity among the Crimean Tatars, 1905-16.  Leiden: E. J. Brill.  242p. ill.

Kolstoe, Paul

1995  Russians in the Former Soviet Republics.  London: Hurst & Company.

Kremeniuk, Viktor Aleksandrovich

1994  Conflicts in and around Russia: Nation-building in difficult times.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.  252p. ill. maps; Signed: Victor A. Kremenyuk.

Kul'chik, Iurii Genrikhovich, Andrei Fadin and Viktor Sergeev

1996  Central Asia after the Empire.  London/Chicago: Pluto Press.  103p. maps.

Lapidus, Gail Warshofsky and Victor Zaslavsky

1992  From union to commonwealth: Nationalism and separatism in the Soviet republics.  Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press.

Lawrence, Timothy

[1991?]  A chronology of the Transcaucasus, Asian and Slav republics, 1988-91.  Manchester.  65p.  /Manchester papers in politics, 4/91/.  Department of Government, Victoria University of Manchester.

Lewis, Robert A., ed.

1992  Geographic perspectives on Soviet Central Asia.  Illus. by R. R. Churchill and A. Tate.  London/New York: Routledge.  xv+323p. maps bibl.  /Studies of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University/.

Malik, Hafeez, ed.

1994  Central Asia: Its strategic importance and future prospects.  New York: St. Martin's Press.  337p.

Mandelbaum, Michael Ezra, ed.

1994  Central Asia and the world: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan.  New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press.  240p.

Manz, Beatrice Forbes

1989  The rise and rule of Tamerlane.  Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press.

Manz, Beatrice Forbes, ed.

1994  Central Asia in historical perspective.  Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.  245p. map.  \\  The John M. Olin critical issues series.  Harvard University Russian Research Center.

McChesney, Robert Duncan

1991  Waqf in Central Asia: Four hundred years in the history of a Muslim shrine, 1480-1889.  Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.  319p. maps.

Mesbahi, Mohiaddin, ed.

1994  Central Asia and the Caucasus after the Soviet Union: Domestic and international dynamics.  Gainesville, Fl.: University of Florida Press.  353p.

Motyl, Alexander J., ed.

1992  The post-Soviet nations: Perspectives on the demise of the USSR.  New York: Columbia University Press.  316p.

Naumkin, Vitalii Viacheslavovich, ed.

1993  State, religion and society in Central Asia: A post-Soviet critique.  Reading, Eng.: Ithaca Press.

1994  Central Asia and Transcaucasia: Ethnicity and conflict.  Westport, Conn./London: Greenwood.  242p.  /Contributions in political science, 339/.

Nazarov, Bakhtiër A. and Dénes Sinor [Denis], eds.

1993  Essays on Uzbek history, culture, and language.  in Uralic and Altaic series, 156.  Bloomington, Ind.  119p.; Signed: Bakhtiyar A. Nazarov and Denis Sinor.  /Indiana University Uralic and Altaic series, 156/.

O'Ballance, Edgar

1997  Wars in the Caucasus, 1990-1995.  New York: New York University Press.

Odom, William E. and Robert Dujarric

1994  Commonwealth or empire?: Russia, Central Asia, and the Transcaucasus.  Indianapolis: Hudson Institute.  290p. maps.

Olcott, Martha Brill

1996  Central Asia's new states: Independence, foreign policy, and regional security.  Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace.  202p. map.

Paksoy, Hasan Bülent, ed.

1992  Central Asian monuments.  Istanbul: ISIS Press.  174p.

1993  Central Asia reader: The rediscovery of history.  Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.  240p.

Parrott, Bruce

1995  State Building and Military Power in Russia and the New States of Eurasia.  Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.  /The International Politics of Eurasia, 5/.

Poliakov, Sergei Petrovich

1991  Everyday Islam: Religion and tradition in Soviet Central Asia [=Bytovoi Islam].  M. B. Olcott, ed.  Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe.

Rahul, Ram N.

1995  Bukhara: The emirate.  New Delhi: Vikas Publishing.  96p. map.

Rashid, Ahmed

1994  The resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or nationalism?.  London: Zed Books.  278p.

Riddell, John, ed.

1993  To see the dawn: Baku, 1920-First Congress of the Peoples of the East.  New York: Pathfinder.

Ro'i, Yaacov, ed.

1995  Muslim Eurasia: Conflicting legacies.  London: Frank Cass.  330p.

Rumer, Boris Z., ed.

1996  Central Asia in transition: Dilemmas of political and economic development.  London: M. E. Sharpe.  286p.

Rupesinghe, Kumar, Peter King and Ol'ga A. Vorkunova, eds.

1992  Ethnicity and conflict in a post-Communist world: The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China.  New York: St. Martin's.  276p. maps.

Sagdeev, Roald Z. and Susan Eisenhower, eds.

1995  Central Asia: Conflict, resolution, and change.  Chevy Chase, Maryland: CPSS Press.  341p. maps.  Center for Post-Soviet Studies.

Sahni, Kalpana

1997  Crucifying the Orient: Russian Orientalism and the colonization of Caucasus and Central Asia.  Oslo: Institute for Comparative Research and Culture, White Orchid Press (Bangkok).  344p.

Saroyan, Mark

1997  Minorities, mullahs, and modernity: Reshaping community in the former Soviet Union.  Berkeley: University of California.

Smith, Graham, ed.

1996  The nationalities question in the post-Soviet states.  New York/London: Longman Group.  xiv+524p. (2nd ed.)

Snyder, Jed C., ed.

1995  After empire: The emerging geopolitics of Central Asia.  Washington, D.C.: National Defense Univ. Press.  ill. port.

Starr, S. Fredrick, ed.

1994  The legacy of history in Russia and the new states of Eurasia.  Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe.  /The international politics of Eurasia, 1/.

Suny, Ronald Grigor

1993  The revenge of the past: Nationalism, revolution, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.  Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.  200p.

Swietochowski, Tadeusz

1995  Russia and Azerbaijan: A borderland in transition.  New York: Columbia University Press.  290p.

Szporluk, Roman

1994  National identity and ethnicity in Russia and the New States of Eurasia.  Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.  /The International Politics of Eurasia, 2/.

Trofimov, Dmitrii A.

1995  Islam in the political culture of the former Soviet Union: Central Asia and Azerbaijan.  Hamburg: IFSH.  65p.; Signed: Dmitry A. Trofimov.  /Hamburger Beitrage zur Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik, 93/.

Twitchett, Dennis, ed.

1994  The Cambridge history of China, Vol. 6: Alien regimes and border states, 907-1368.  Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press. xxix+864pp.

Warhola, James Walter

1996  Politicized ethnicity in the Russian Federation.  Lewiston/Queenston/Lempeter: Edwin Mellen.  152 pp. 2 maps.

Warikoo, Kulbhushan B. and Dawa Norbu, eds.

1992  Ethnicity and politics in Central Asia.  New Delhi: South Asian Publishers.  291 pp.

Winrow, Gareth M.

1995  Turkey in post-Soviet Central Asia.  London: Royal Institute of International Affairs.  53 pp.  /Former Soviet South Project/.

Wright, John F., Suzanne Goldenberg, and Richard Schofield, eds.

1996  Transcaucasian boundaries.  London: UCL Press.  248 pp.

Yamauchi, Masayuki

1991  The green crescent under the red star: Enver Pasha in Soviet Russia, 1919-1922.  Tokyo.  395 pp. ill.  /Studia culturae Islamicae, 42/.  Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.

Zviagel'skaia, Irina

1995  The Russian policy debate on Central Asia.  London: Royal Institute of International Affairs.  41 pp.

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