Eurasia Twenty Years After
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/Buþra Ersanly. 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/Ylhan Þahin. 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 Development/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)/Soren 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.
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.
