1st Edition

The Central Asian States Discovering Independence

By Gregory W Gleason Copyright 1997
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    244 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book traces the incorporation of Central Asia into the Soviet system, the region's path of development under socialism, and the vicissitudes of the economic and political collapse of socialism, before considering the trajectories of the new states as they chart their independent futures.

    Westview Series on the Post-Soviet Republics -- Preface -- A Note on Languages in Central Asia -- About the Book and Author -- New States and Ancient Societies -- Legacies of Central Asia -- The Soviet Socialist Republics of Central Asia -- Central Asian States Emergent -- Central Asia and the World -- Transition in Asia -- Chronology of Events in Modern Central Asia: November 1917–December 1995

    Biography

    Gregory W Gleason