476 Pages
by
Routledge
476 Pages
by
Routledge
476 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1987. The aim of this historical and statistical handbook is to answer three basic questions about the Islamic peoples of the USSR: who they are, where they are and how many of them there are. It is convenient to speak of them as 'Soviet Muslims', grouping them all together under a single, collective heading, but they are in fact quite disparate. For this reason it was decided... Read more
1 Introduction 2 General information: The Soviet Union; Structure; Citizenship and Nationality; Economic Status; Education; Language; Religion; Composition and Distribution of Peoples; General Statistics 3 European USSR and Siberia (Peoples shown below in small type do not constitute separate Soviet 'nationalities') 4 Transcaucasia and Northern Caucasus 5 Central Asia and Kazakhstan Appendix: Non-Muslim Turkic peoples of the Soviet; Maps
Biography
Shirin Akiner
