Central Asian Survey

VOLUME 17  Number 4  December 1998

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Special Issue on Market reforms, social dislocations and survival in post-Soviet Central Asia. Guest editors: Deniz Kandiyoti and Ruth Mandel

Notes on contributors

Editors’ preface
Deniz Kandiyoti and Ruth Mandel 533

Shirkats, dekhqon farmers and others: farm restructuring in Uzbekistan
Alisher Ilkhamov 539

Rural livelihoods and social networks in Uzbekistan: perspectives from
Andijan
Deniz Kandiyoti 561

Money and social connections in the Soviet and post-Soviet Uzbek city
Victoria Koroteyeva and Ekaterina Makarova 579

Household networks and the security of mutual indebtedness in rural
Kazakstan
Cynthia Werner 597

Taking shelter: the art of keeping a roof overhead in post-Soviet Almaty
Andrew J. Brown 613

Structural adjustment and soap opera: a case study of a development project
in Central Asia
Ruth Mandel 629

From pioneers to entrepreneurs: young women, consumerism, and the
‘world picture’ in Kyrgyzstan
Kathleen Kuehnast 639

Coping with daily life in post-Soviet Tajikistan: the Gharmi villages of
Khatlon province
Colette Harris 655

Negotiating locality, Islam, and national culture in a changing borderlands:
the revival of the Mäshräp ritual among young Uighur men in the Lli valley
Sean R. Roberts 673

Crafts, entrepreneurship and gendered economic relations in Southern
Xinjiang in the era of ‘socialist commodity economy’
Ildikó Bellér-Hann 701

Book reviews 719

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Central Asian Survey

VOLUME 17  Number 3  September 1998

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Notes on contributors

Xinjiang and its Central Asian borderlands
Witt Raczka 373

Conflicts in the North Caucasus
Svante E. Cornell 409

‘Tribalism’ and identity in contemporary circumstances: the case of
Kazakstan
Saulesh Esenova 443

Power and powerlessness in Kazakstani society: ethnic problems in
perspective
Timothy Edmunds 463

Periodicity and intensity in the Afghan War
Larry P. Goodson 471

Afghanistan: a geopolitical study
Ijaz Khan 489

Book reviews 503

Publications received 519

Central Asian Survey

VOLUME 17  Number 2  June 1998

Contents

Notes on contributors

Armée et démocratie: le rôle politique de l’armée au Pakistan
Lucille Beaumont 197

China’s political and economic relations with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
Yasmin Melet 229

The dilemma of reforming economics education in the post-socialist
economy of Uzbekistan: has anything changed?
Haideh Salehi-Esfahani & Judy Thornton 253

Islam as a ‘common bond’ in Central Asia: Islamic Renaissance Party
and the Afghan mujahidin
Pinar Akcali 267

The Crimean Tatar exile in Central Asia: a case study in group destruction
and survival
Brian Glyn Williams 285

Probing parity between history and oral tradition: putting Shora Nogmov’s
History of the Adygei People in its place
Brian J. Boeck 319

Conflict in the Caucasus: an historical context and a prospect for peace
Robert Bruce Ware 337

Book reviews 353

Central Asian Survey

VOLUME 17  Number 1  March 1998

Special issue on Mongolia, edited by Caroline Humphrey and Uradyn Erden Bulag, Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge

Contents

Notes on contributors

Otrar
Henry G. Schwarz 5

The cult of Ulanhu in Inner Mongolia: history, memory, and the making
of national heroes
Uradyn Erden Bulag 11

Creating national identity in socialist Mongolia
Christopher Kaplonski 35

Shamanism, Buddhism and epic hero-ism: which supports the identity of
the post-Soviet Buryats?
Roberte N. Hamayon 51

The Mongol-Han relations in a new configuration of social evolution
Naran Bilik 69

A socio-demographic profile of the Mongols in China, 1990
Jerry Jirimutu 93

A new appraisal of democratic reform in the pastoral zone of Inner
Mongolia in the 1940s
Zhao Zhenbei 109

Mythological and Biblical references in Chingiz Aitmatov’s Tavro Kassandry
Nina Kolesnikoff 139

A historian’s vision of ‘Khudjum’
Dilarom A. Alimova 147

Georgian cinema: the price of independence
Gönul Dönmez-Colin 157

Book reviews 163

Publications received 189

Central Asian Survey

VOLUME 16  Number 4  December 1997

Contents

Notes on contributors

Central Asia and Xinjiang, China: Emerging energy, economic and ethnic
relations
James P. Dorian, Brett Wigdortz & Dru Gladney 461

The national liberation movement of the Kazakh intelligentsia at the
beginning of the 20th century
Gulnar Kendirbay 487

The political shape of Central Asia
Shahram Akbarzadeh 517

The national identity of the Volga Tatars at the turn of the 19th
century: Tatarism, Turkism and Islam
Galina M. Yémelianova 543

Integration in Central Asia: from theory to policy
Houman A. Sadri 573

The Finno-Ugric peoples of central Russia: opportunities for
emancipation or condemned to assimilation?
Bruno de Cordier 587

Political forces and their structures in Tajikistan
Habibollah Abolhassan Shirazi 611

Book reviews 623

Books received 641

Central Asia noticeboard 642

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Central Asian Survey

VOLUME 16  Number 3  September 1997

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Notes on contributors

Constitutional development in Central Asia
John Anderson 301

Politics of privatization in Kazakstan
Mehrdad Haghayeghi 321

Turkestan and pan-Turkism revisited
Anthony Hyman 339

Problems and possibilities for higher education in Uzbekistan: the
English department of Ferghana State University
Nicholas Megoran 353

The Hazaras and their role in the process of political transformation
in Afghanistan
Hafizullah Emadi 363

Development of family law in Afghanistan: the roles of the Hanafi
Madhhab, customary practices and power politics
Helena Malikyar 389

After Chechnya: new dangers in Daghestan
Robert Bruce Ware & Enver Kisriev 401

La nouvelle 'guerre du Caucase'
François Jean 413

Disinformation in Chechnya: an anatomy of a deception
Richard Clogg 425

The frontiers of Turkestan
Alâeddin Yalçinkaya 431

Obituary (Mark Batunsky)
Andreas Kappeler 439

Book reviews 441

Publications received 453

Central Asian Survey

VOLUME 16 Number 2 June 1997

Contents

Notes on contributors

Tajikistan, Iran, and the international politics of the 'Islamic factor'
Mohiaddin Mesbahi 141

Privatization and agrarian reform in the Caucasian economies
Michael Kaser 159

The dynamics of regime transition in Afghanistan
William Maley 167

Iran's policy in Central Asia
Adam Tarock 185

A Chechen state?
Svante E. Cornell 201

Ethnicity and religion in Tatarstan and the Volga-Ural region
David C. Lewis 215

Central Asian geopolitics: the Indian view
Madan Mohan Puri 237

South Ossetia between Gamsakhurdia and Gorbachev: three documents
Felix Corley 269

Cinema in isolation
Gönül Dönmez-Colin 277

Book reviews 281

Central Asia Noticeboard 291

Central Asian Survey

VOLUME 16  Number 1  March 1997

Contents

Notes on contributors

Economic transition in six Central Asian economies
Michael Kaser 5

Otines: the unknown women clerics of Central Asian Islam
Habiba Fathi 27

Suicide in post-Soviet Kazakhstan: role stress, age and gender
Cynthia Buckley 45

Uzbekistan in the new world order
Meryem Kirimli 53

A note on shifting identities in the Ferghana valley
Shahram Akbarzadeh 65

The revival of lamaism in Mongolia
Udo B. Barkmann 69

The past and the present: the power of heroic epics and oral tradition-
Manas 1000
Ewa Wasilewska 81

The Turkish model: the place of the Alawites
Idris Bal 97

Pan-Turkism and Europeanism: a note on Turkey's 'pro-German
neutrality' during the Second World War
Saban Çalis 103

Kazakh 'new wave': post-perestroika, post-Soviet Union
Gönül Dönmez-Colin 115

Book reviews 119

Publications received 129

Central Asian Survey

VOLUME 15  Number 3/4  December 1996

Contents

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

National reconciliation: the imperfect whim
Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh 325

Islam in Romania
Gyorgy Lederer 349

Regional integration in Central Asia: current economic position and
prospects
Heribert Dieter 369

Civil society and sustainable development in Central Asia
Douglas Saltmarshe 387

Conflits ethniques et dégradation écologique en Asie centrale, La
vallée de Ferghana et le nord du Kazakhstan
Bruno de Cordier 399

An oasis for peace: Zhang Zhizhong's policy in Xinjiang, 1945-1947
David D. Wang 413

BOOK REVIEWS 431

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED 449

CENTRAL ASIA NOTICEBOARD 451

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Central Asian Survey

VOLUME 15 Number 2 June 1996

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Turkey and Central Asia: challenges of change
Mustafa Aydin 157

The trouble with democracy in Kazakhstan
Ian Bremmer and Cory Welt 179

The state and rural-based rebellion in Afghanistan
Hafizullah Emadi 201

The Tajiks of Uzbekistan
Richard Foltz 213

The role of culture, history and language in Turkish national identity
building: an overemphasis on Central Asian roots
Didem Mersin Alici 217

Sefarat Name-ye Khwarezm-the last Iranian mission to Central Asia
in the 19th century
Ali Granmayeh 233

CHECHNYA FILE
The problems of medical relief in the Chechen war zone
François Jean 255

DOCUMENTS
Appendix to Documents from the KGB archive in Sukhum.
Abkhazia in the Stalin years
Translated with a preface and epilogue by George Hewitt 259

BOOK REVIEWS 299

CENTRAL ASIA NOTICEBOARD 319

Central Asian Survey

VOLUME 15 Number 1 March 1996

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Notes on contributors

When National Ambition Conflicts with Reality: studies on Kazakhstan's
ethnic relations
Jiger Janabel 5

Nation-building in Uzbekistan
Shahram Akbarzadeh 23

Le Pakistan traverse une nouvelle période d'instabilité
Witt Raczka 33

The Economic Cooperation Organization: towards a new silk road on the
ruins of the Cold War?
Bruno De Cordier 47

Poverty and Transition in Kyrgyzstan: how some households cope
Jude Howell 59

Women of the Sedentary Population of Russian Turkestan Through the
Eyes of Western Travellers
Colette Harris 75

CHECHNYA FILE
International Reaction to the Chechen Crisis
Taras Kuzio 97

Documents from United Nations Commission on Human Rights Sub-
Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities:
Forty-seventh session 111

Book Reviews 121