Journal of Central Asian Studies

The Publication of the Association for the Advancement of Central Asian Research

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Contents of Previous Issues

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            Vol. I, No. 1    (Fall/Winter, 1996)

 

                      Articles:

 

                   Origins of the Tatar-Bashkir Border, 1920-1922                                2-15

                   Daniel E. Schafer

 

                   Russian Peasant colonization of Eastern Transcaucasia in              16-29

the Nineteenth Century                           

                   Firouzeh Mostashari

 

                   Economic Developments in Kazakhstan since Independence            30-45

Lyaziza Sabyrova

 

Book Reviews:

 

Beatrice Forbes Manz (ed.), Central Asia in Historical Perspective

                   Reviewed by Richard Foltz

 

                   Mohiaddin Mesbahi (ed.), Central Asia and the Caucasus After the Soviet Union:

                  Domestic and International Dynamics

                   Reviewed by Mehrdad Haghayeghi

 

                   Dale F. Eckelman (ed.), Russia’s Muslim Frontiers:  New Directions in Cross-Cultural

                  Analysis

                   Reviewed by G.L. Penrose

 

 

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          Vol. I, No. 2    (Spring/Summer, 1997)

 

                  Articles:

         

Nationality Policy and National Identity: The Turkmen Soviet                   2-20

Socialist Republic, 1924-1929

Adrienne Lynn Edgar

 

                   Local government Reform in Kazakhstan                                                      21-34                       

                   Marvin Nowicki

 

                   The Uighur Intelligntsia 1920-50: Pawns or Martyrs?                               35-48

                   Dilber Thwaites

 

 

                   Research Notes:                                                                                              49-53

 

                   Factors Promoting the Growth of Juvenile Crime in Kazakhstan

                   G.S. Maulenov, Timur Kshibekov, Richard Dodder, Zhanar Sagimbayeva

 

                   On the Origins of Turkic Culture

                   A.K. Kasymzhanov and K.O. Tribble

 

 

Book Reviews:                                                                                                54-61

 

Djelal Kadir (ed.), “Literature of Central Asia,” World Literature Today

                   Reviewed by Michael Beard

 

                   Vladimir Tismaneanu (ed.), Political Culture and Civil Society In Russia and the New States of Eurasia

                   Reviewed by David Abramson

 

Igor Ermakov and Dmitrii Mikulskii (eds.), Islam v Rossii I Srednei Azii

                   Reviewed by Russell Zanca

 

                   S.C.M. Paine, Imperial Rivals:China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier

                   Reviewed by David Christian

 

                   Martha Avery, Women of Mongolia

                   Reviewed by Jeannine Davis-Kimball

                       

 

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Vol. II, No. 1 (Fall/Winter, 1997)

 

                        Articles:

 

                   Script and Scripture: The Three Alphabets of Tajik Persian,                  1-18

  1927-1997

                   John Perry

 

                   The Command-Administrative System of Cotton Farming in                  19-45

Uzbekistan: From collectivization and Cotton Independence to

Reform and Grain Independence                    

                   Mike Thurman

 

                   Turkistan: Muslim Landscapes and Kazak Identity                                  46-61

                   Bruce Privratsky

 

Fact and Fiction in the Twentieth-Century Tatar Novel: Ayaz        62-66

Ishaki’s Uyge Taba and Rinat Muhammediev’s Cirat Kyper

Gonul Pultar      

 

 

Research Notes:                                                                                            67-71

 

                   Uzbekistan: Through Education to the Progress of Society

Yusuf Abdullaev

 

 

Book Reviews:                                                                                              72-77

 

Daniel R. Brower and Edward J. Lazzerine, eds., Russia’s Orient: Imperial Borderlands

And People, 1700-1917

Reviewed by Willard Sunderland

 

Boris Rumer, ed., Central Asia in Transition: Dilemmas of Political and Economic

Development

                   Reviewed by Kurt Engelmann

 

Karl Krippes, Kazakh (Qazaq)-English Dictionary

                   Reviewed by Uli Schamiloglu

 

 

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          Vol. II, No. 2  (Spring/Summer, 1998)

 

                  Articles:

         

Informal Sector Trade In Uzbekistan                                                         2-19

Markus Kaiser

 

                   Trends in the Foreign Relations of Kazakstan                                        20-34                            

                   Houdri Sadri

 

                   State Administration in Tajikistan: Understanding Reality                    35-41

                   Farrukh Salihov

 

 

                   Research Notes:                                                                                          42-46

 

                   The Concept and Importance of Social Capital – An Aid to Guiding Uzbekistan in to the

  21st Century

                   Daniel Stevens

 

 

Book Reviews:                                                                               47-50

 

Pierre Chuvin, ed., Inde-Asie centrale. Routes du commerce et des idẻes,” Cahiers

  d’Asie cebtrake ½, Aix-en-Provence: Ẻditions Ẻdisud

                   Reviewed by Richard Foltz

 

                   Touraj Atabaki and John O’Kane, Post-Soviet Central Asia

                   Reviewed by Julian Birch

 

Robert Chenciner, Daghestan: Tradition and Survival

                   Reviewed by Bruce Grant

 

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            Vol. III, No. 1 (Fall/Winter, 1998)

 

                   Articles:

 

        Trade, Transport and Nationalism in Republican Era Hami, Xinjiang                      2-18

        Linda Benson

 

        From Qumulluq to Uyghur: The Role of Education in the Development                   19-29

        of a Pan-Uyghur Identity

       Gardner Bovington

 

        Language Contact in Qumul                                                                                        30-41

        Arienne Dwyer    

 

 

 

        Book Reviews:                                                                                                             42-45     

 

        Michael P. Croissant, The Armenian-Azerbaijan Conflict: Causes and Implications.

        Reviewed by Patrik Jotun

 

        Yongjin Zhang and Rouben Azizian, eds., Ethnic Challenges Beyond Borders:

        Chinese and Russian Perspectives of the Central Asian Conundrum. 

        Reviewed by Neil Melvin

 

        K. Tokayev, Pod flagom nezavisimosti: ocherki o vneshnei politike Kazakhstana.

        Reviewed by Rafis Abazov

 

 

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            Vol. III, No. 2 (Spring/Summer, 1999)

 

                 Articles:

 

                The Making of a Linguistic Identity: Language and the Formation of the Uzbek State       2-19

                Anita Sengupta

 

 

                Transition and Vulnerability Management in Uzbekistan                                                   20-31 

                Jonathan Zartman

 

 

                The Paper Nation: Nationalist Iconography on Uzbek Currency                                       32-36

                John Dunn

 

 

                Research Notes:

 

 

                Attracting  and Managing Foreign Direct Investment in the Central Asian Region             37-50

                Zhanar Abdildina, Evgeny Alekseev, Damir Muzafarov, Kunnura Raiymbekova    

 

 

        Book Reviews:                                                                                                                   51-56      

 

        J.P. Mallory and Victor H. Mair, The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the

        Earliest Peoples from the West

        Reviewed by Izabella Horvath

 

        Hooman Peimani,  Iran and the United States: The Rise of the West Asian Regional Grouping. 

        Reviewed by Jamsheed K. Choksy

 

        In Memoriam: A. K. Kasymzhanov (1931-2000).

        Keith O. Tribble

 

       

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           Vol. IV, No. 1 (Fall/Winter, 1999)

 

    

                 Articles:

   

                Armenian Energy: Establishing or Eroding Sovereignty?                                         2-13

                Shannon O’Lear

 

                Indo-Central Asian Contacts: A Study of the Turkoman Initiative in the

               Medieval Period.                                                                                                         14-29

                R. L. Hangloo

 

                     Forgotten in Central Asia: The Dynamics of Trade in the Xinjiang-Uigur

                Autonomous Republic.                                                                                                 30-42

               Martin C. Spechler

 

               Research Notes:

 

                    Two American Reports on Life in Mongolia in World War II                                        43-52                       

                   Gary Leiser

 

 

 

                    Book Reviews:                                                                                                              53-58

 

 

               Adeeb Khalid, The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform:  Jadidism in Central Asia

               Reviewed by Cengiz Surucu

 

               Shirin Akiner, Sander Tideman and Jon Hay, eds., Sustainable Development in

               Central Asia

               Reviewed by Simon Heap

 

               Mikhail Alexandrov, Uneasy Alliance: Relations between Russia and Kazakhstan in the

               Post-Soviet Era, 1992-1997.

               Reviewed by Beate Eschment

 

 

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         Vol. IV, No. 2 (Spring/Summer, 2000)

 

               Articles:   

 

               The Impacts of de-Collectivization on Kazak Pastoralists.

               Case Studies from Kazakstan, Mongolia and the People’s Republic of China                  2-34

               Sarah Robinson, Peter Finke and Bettina Hamann.

 

               Iran and Turkey in Central Asia: Opportunities for Rapprochement in the

               Post-Cold War Era                                                                                                            34-58

               Ertan Efegil  and Leonard A. Stone.

 

 

               Book Reviews:                                                                                                                   59-65

 

               Charles Van der Leeuw, Storm over the Caucasus in the Wake of Independence.

               Reviewed by Hooman Peimani

 

              Valeriy Volozov, Azerbaijani Texts With Parallel English Translations.

              Reviewed by Erica Gilson

 

              Bruno Coppieters, David Darchiashvili and Natella Akaba, editors. Federal Practice:

              Exploring Alternatives for Georgia and Abkhazia.

              Reviewed by Julie A. George

 

 

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   Vol. V, No. 1 (Fall/Winter, 2000)

 

            Articles:

 

           Otabek’s Return: Ignoring the Lessons of Jadid Reformism in Modern Uzbekistan.     2-13

           Shawn T. Lyons

 

           Contours of Discontent?  Demographics and Perceptions of Governance

            in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.                                                                                     14-30

       Eric McGlinchey

           The Theory of Integration and The Eurasian Economic Community.                            31-43

   Evgenii. A. Kuznetsov and Gregory Gleason

 

            Research Notes:

 

            China’s Policy and Strategy Toward Central Asia.                                                        44-49

            Dmitriy Pashkun

 

 

 

           Book Reviews:                                                                                                                 50-53 

 

           Attilio Petruccioli, editor.  Bukhara: The Myth and the Architecture.

           Reviewed by Shoshana Keller

 

           Elisabetta Chiodo.  The Mongolian Manuscripts on Birch Bark from Xarbuxyn Balgas in the

           Collection of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Part 1.

          Reviewed by Timothy May

 

 

 

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  Vol. V, No. 2  (Spring/Summer, 2001)      

                                                       

               Articles: 

              The Transformations of Manichaeism Under the Khocho Uyghurs.                      2-15

               Xijuan Zhou

 

              The New Game in Central Asia: Comparative Uzbek and Kazakh Foreign Policy.    16-31

              Brian Grodsky

 

              Stresses of Globalization: Unrelenting Sectarian Violence in the Republic of Georgia.   33-43

              Knox Thames

 

              Toward the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon-free Zone.          44-57                                    

              Engin I. Erdem

 

 

               Research Notes:

              Public Spending, “Incorporation Effects” and State-Building Strategies in

              Post-Soviet Central Asia.                                                                                 58-61

              Jason E. Strakes

 

 

 

              Book Reviews:…………………………………………………………………62-67

 

              Bruce G. Privratsky, Muslim Turkistan: Kazak Religion and Collective Memory.

              Reviewed by Donna Stewart

 

              Marta Kiripolská, King Arthasiddhi: A Mongolian Translation of “The Younger Brother Don Yod. 

              Reviewed by Li Yu

 

 

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