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EURASIA TWENTY YEARS AFTER

Year: 2012

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616pp

ISBN: 9788175416390

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The volume focuses on Eurasia during the last two decades, which mark both the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the appearance of fifteen new independent states in the global arena. On the one hand, twenty years of the collapse of the Soviet Union generated debates over the causes and consequences of the collapse. On the other hand, there have been discussions on what the last two decades meant for the emerging states, the individual and the community. The ways in which the newly independent states perceive themselves-i.e. as sovereign entities or as cosmopolitan spaces with pan-Iranian/pan-Turkic/pan-Mongol linkages sharing several pasts-have also been re-evaluated. Similarly, the rhetoric invoking national sovereignty, both in terms of its continuities and discontinuities, is being reassessed in several ways. Here, one needs to take note of the fact that the memory of the Soviet past remains vivid within the region. The volume explores how experiences of independence have been both similar and dissimilar for the former Soviet republics. It addresses the ways in which relationships and identities have been reconfigured, structures have been institutionalized, while issues like ethnicity still remain important. The wide gamut of impressions about Eurasia in the volume indicates sensitivities about this region. It also reflects the visibility of this region in international affairs.


About Author

Anita Sengupta, Fellow at Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata.

Suchandana Chatterjee, Fellow at Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata.

Susmita Bhattacharya, Fellow at Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata.


Contents

Introduction: Perspectives on Twenty Years Afterix
Legacies and Images of the Soviet and 'Post Soviet'
1. Mythological Aftermath of the Post-Soviet Era
Oleg A. Donskikh
2. Mythmaking versus Forgetting in the Context of Post-Soviet Ethnic History in the Republic of Buryatiya, late 1980s-Early 2000s
Vsevolod Bashkuev
3. Soviet Deportation Policy of Nomadic Population in 1920-1930: The Case of Kyrgyzstan
Zuhra Altymyshova
4. The Soviet Republics in the Post-Soviet Space: Buryatiya in Search of Sovereignty
Marina N. Baldano, Svetlana V. Baldano
History and Historiography
5. Twenty Years After: New Histories Emerging
Isenbike Togan
6. Tibet in Soviet Studies
Tatiana Shaumian
7. Tools for Epiphany in New Histories in Central Asia: Sudden Revelation but Gradual Change in History Textbooks
Büþra Ersanlý
8. From Soviet Historiography to National Historiography: Continuities and Discontinuities in Azerbaijani Historiography
Y. Emre Gürbüz
9. The New Edition of the History of Siberia: Reviewing and Summarizing Trends in Contemporary Siberian Historiography
Denis Ananyev
Societies in Motion
10. Civil Society in Uzbekistan: Continuity and Innovation
Shirin Akiner
11. Between the State and Society: Position of Mahallas in Uzbekistan
Timur Dadabaev
12. Kinship Relations in Kyrgyzstan Following the Transition Period: The Case of Küntuu Village
Ãlhan Ãahin
13. Urbanization and the Process of Cultural Change in Kyrgyzstan194
Kishimjan Eshenkulova
14. Young People's Quest for Affordable Housing in Tashkent: The Transformation of Housing in Independent Uzbekistan
Hikoyat Salimova
15. Identity of Ukrainians: A Historical Perspective
Preeti Das
16. Political Islam in Central Asia: The Case of the Tajik Islamic Renaissance Party
Pinar Akcali
17. Terror, Islam and Imperatives of Reconciliation in Eurasia
P.L. Dash
18. The Role of Uzbek Islamic Extremists in the Civil Wars of Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan
Michael Fredholm
19. No Iron Curtain Against the South: Jihadi Influence in the Post-Soviet Space and its Potential for Conflict
Didier Chaudet
20. Islam in Post-Soviet Russia, its Resurgence and Impact with Reference to Chechnya
Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra
21. Politicization of Religion in the Context of Ethno Cultural Revival in Buryatiya
Darima Amogolonova
Institutions and Structures
22. Central Asian States: Alternative Models of Economic Development339
R.G. Gidadhubli
23. Dialectics of Transition in Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan's Move to Parliamentary Democracy
Ajay Kumar Patnaik
24. Challenges of Institutional Transformation in Central Asia: Perspective from Uzbekistan
Mirzokhid Rakhimov
25. From a Union to a Region: The South Caucasus between Similarities and Differences
Marilisa Lorusso
Cultural Representations
26. The New Holidays in Buryatiya, or New Life to the Old Calendar Holidays
Olga V. Buraeva
27. Dynamics of Transition: Films from Central Asia
Rashmi Doraiswamy
28. The "Fall" of the Soviet Union and the "Fall" of the Socialist Realist Literary Canon
Ranjana Saxena
29. The Musical Life of Post-Soviet Turkmenistan
Shakhym Gullyev
30. Musical Culture of Uzbekistan after Independence
Dilorom Karomat and Nigora Khasanova
Neighbourhoods
31. Gaps in the Fence: Negotiating Grassroots Relations in the Sino-Soviet Borderlands (1983-1993)
Sören Urbansky
32. Extra-Legal Practices of Natural Resource Management in the Russian Far East
Natalia P. Ryzhova
33. Looking beyond Geographic Neighbours: Post-Soviet Mongolia's "Third Neighbour" Policy
Sharad K. Soni
34. Mongolia in the Post-Soviet Space
V.B. Bazarov
35. The Legacy of the Ottoman Diplomacy in Central Asia and the Parallels with Modern Turkey
Roza Abdykulova
36. Central Eurasia: Relevance for India from Geopolitical and Economic Perspectives
Nivedita Das Kundu
Migration Patterns
37. Overcoming the "New Borders": Labour Migrants from Central Asia to Russia
Viktor I. Dyatlov
38. Demographic Transition in North Asia: Paradoxes of History
Vladimir A. Isupov
39. Migration Processes in the Post-Soviet Space (Russia and Central Asian Region)
Sayan Darzhaev
40. Age and Gender Structure of the Population of the Countries of Asia: General and Specific
Yana A. Kuznetsova
Contributors
Index


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