Central Asia in Historical Perspective

Introduction (Beatrice F. Manz. ) Historical Background (B. F. Manz. ) The Shaping Of Central Asian Identities And Politics The Legacy of the Mongols (Morris Rossabi. ) The Symbiosis of Turk and Tajik (Maria Eva Subtelny. ) Central Asia as a Part of the Modern Islamic World (John O. Voll. ) Volga Tatars in Central Asia, 18th20th Centuries: From Diaspora to Hegemony (Edward J. Lazzerini. ) Religion And Ethnic Relations In 20th-Century Central Asia Soviet Uzbekistan: State and Nation in Historical Perspective (Donald S. Carlisle. ) Tajiks and the Persian World (Muriel Atkin. ) Underdevelopment and Ethnic Relations in Central Asia (A. M. Khazanov. ) The Influence of Islam in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan (Reef Altoma. ) Central Asia And Russia Commensals or Parasites? Russians, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, and Others in Central Asia (Edward Allworth. ) Post-Soviet Central Asia and the Commonwealth of Independent States: The Economic Background of Interdependence (Bakhtior A. Islamov.)