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The Soviet legacy in Central Asia

This book was copied from the amazing and wonderful PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset, a labor of love by two dedicated and talented historians. We encourage you to visit them, and subscribe to their list for updates on new books as they are uploaded. · xii, 198 pages : 23 cm · "This book analyses the new pattern of security concerns of the Central Asian successor states, i.e. Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizstan, Turkmenistan and Tadzhikistan. It argues that although some form of national consolidation occurred during the Soviet period, divisions within each national grouping remain. These states are confronted with the fact that subnational, supranational and national loyalties frequently override a population's loyalty to the state. It is this so-called 'insecurity dilemma' of each of the Central Asian states which is examined in this book."--BOOK JACKET · Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-194) and index · The South's "insecurity dilemma" -- Ethnicity, nationalism and nation-building -- Pre-revolutionary identities in Central Asia -- The redrawing of boundaries: Soviet "official nationalism" -- Contemporary Central Asia -- Iron fist or velvet revolutio

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