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Since Soviet disintegration, there have been varied perceptions about Eurasia's transition. Initially, attention was focused on the changes that became obvious in politics and society and people's orientation towards change. Gradually, there was a re-appraisal of the transformation that occurred, and attempts were made to identify the genesis of change in the Soviet era. Post-Soviet thinking metamorphosed into a realistic appraisal of the continuities rather than the discontinuities of the two periods. It is this duality of transition that has been focused upon in the book Communities, Institutions and Transition in post-1991 Eurasia. The contributions in the volume convey the central theme that transition in Eurasia is a continuing and expanding discourse about space and identity.
Dr. Suchandana Chatterjee, Fellow, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata.
Dr. Anita Sengupta, Fellow, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata.
Introduction ix
Part 1 Trends and Debates on Transition
1. Triple Transition in Post-Soviet Eurasia
P.L. Dash
2. Conceptual Transformation of East Siberia’s Geographical Space during the Transition Period, late 1980s–early 2000s
Vsevolod Bashkuev
3. Inner Asia: Glimpses of a Cosmopolitan Space
Suchandana Chatterjee
4. Ideological Debates in the Context of Transition: A Case Study of Kyrgyzstan
Asel Murzakulova
5. Typology of Russian Transition Periods
V.A. Lamin
6. The ‘Frontier’ Revisited—Trends in Siberian Historiography
Denis Anan’ev
Part 2 Institutions in Transition
7. Pre-Soviet, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Central Asia: The Case of Uzbekistan
Farkhod Tolipov
8. Pre and Post-Soviet: The Role of Rigid Social Forms
Oleg A. Donskikh
9. The ‘Turkish Model’ and the Turkic World
Anita Sengupta
10. National Culture in the Context of Globalization
Abdurahim Juraev
11. Central Eurasia: The Paradigm Shift and Power Configurations
Debidutta Aurobinda Mohapatra
Part 3 Economies and Politics in Transition
12. Economic Crisis in Russia and Central Asia: Causes and Consequences
R.G. Gidadhubli
13. Convergence between Economics of Transition and Development Economics in Post-1991 Eurasia
Gulshan Sachdeva
14. Evaluation of the Competitiveness of North-South Transport Corridor
Vladimir Yu Malov
15. Informal Cross Border Exchanges: Reaction to Institutional Transition (Russian-Chinese Border Case)
Natalia Ryzhova
16. Logics of Semi-presidentialism and Post-communist Politics
Kimitaka Matsuzato
17. Democratic Transition and Development in Post-Soviet Central Asian Communities
Habibollah Abolhassan Shirazi
18. Post-1991 Mongolia: A Paradigm of Peaceful Democratic Transition
Sharad K. Soni
Part 4 Communities and Ethnicities in Transition
19. Ethnic and Religious Identity in the Borderland of Cultures
O.V. Buraeva
20. Kiryar in Khorog: An Ethnography of the Changes and Continuities in ‘Community Social Capital’ from Socialist to Post-Socialist Tajikistan
Fayaz Noormohamed
21. Social and Economic Changes in the Transition: The Case of Suusamir Valley in Kyrgyzstan
Ilhan Sahin
22. The Interaction of Ethnocultural and Ethnopolitical Processes in Russia during the 1990s: A Case Study of the All-Buryat Association for the Development of Culture
Marina N. Baldano
23. Buryat National Idea: Continuity and/or Discontinuity of Tradition
Svetlana Baldano
24. “Ethnic Markets” of the Post-Soviet Era: The Mechanism of Supply, Institution and Social Organism
V.I. Dyatlov
25. Business Culture of Chinese Traders in Pre-Revolutionary Russia Through the Eyes of Russian Contemporaries
E.V. Dyatlova
26. Indian Business and Businessmen in Russia: A Perspective on International Migration in the late 20th Century
Hari Vasudevan
Part 5 Religion and Culture in Transition
27. Turkish Islamic Movements and their Contribution to the Islamic Revival of Central Asia
Bayram Balci
28. Buddhism and Contemporary Religious Processes in Post-socialist Mongolia
Tsymzhit Vanchikova
29. The Cult of Saints within Siberian Islam: Anthropological Approach to Studying of Pre-Soviet Tradition and Post-Soviet Transitions
Alexandr Seleznev and Irina Selezneva
30. Tajikistan: Challenge of Religious Extremism in the Post Soviet Period
Nirmala Joshi
31. Dynamics of Transition: Films from Central Asia
Rashmi Doraiswamy
32. Linguistic Transformations in the Post-Soviet Space of Central Asia During the Transition Period
Maria I. Gritsko
Contributors
List of Russian Translations
Index