PUBL.- Empire, Islam, and Politics in Central Eurasia

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PUBL.- Empire, Islam, and Politics in Central Eurasia

Posted by: Uyama Tomohiko <uyama@slav.hokudai.ac.jp>

The Slavic Research Center of Hokkaido University, Japan, announces
the publication of a new book:

Empire, Islam, and Politics in Central Eurasia (Slavic Eurasian
Studies, no.14) / edited by Uyama Tomohiko
Sapporo: Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2007, ix + 376
p. Includes index.

Contents

Part One: The Russian Empire and Central Eurasia

1. Dar al-Islam under Russian Rule As Understood by Turkestani Muslim
Intellectuals (Komatsu Hisao)

2. A Particularist Empire: The Russian Policies of Christianization
and Military Conscription in Central Asia (Uyama Tomohiko)

3. Maktab or School? Introduction of Universal Primary Education among
the Volga-Ural Muslims (Naganawa Norihiro)

4. Central Asia in Early Photographs: Russian Colonial Attitudes and
Visual Culture (Margaret Dikovitskaya)

Part Two: The Revolution and Intellectuals

5. The Fascination of Revolution: Central Asian Intellectuals,
1917-1927 (Adeeb Khalid)

6. The Alash Movement and the Soviet Government: A Difference of
Positions (Mambet Koigeldiev)

Part Three: Mass Deportations under the Soviet Regime

7. Deportation of the Kalmyks (1943-1956): Stigmatized Ethnicity
(Elza-Bair Guchinova)

8. Nationalities Policy in the Brezhnev Era: The Case of Deported
Nations (Hanya Shiro)

Part Four: Local and Global Aspects of Islamic Revival

9. Fundamentalist Challenges to Local Islamic Traditions in Soviet and
Post-Soviet Central Asia (Ashirbek Muminov)

10. Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Caucasian Region: "Global" and
"Local" Islam in the Pankisi Gorge (George Sanikidze)

Part Five: Post-Soviet Political Developments

11. An Analysis of the Internal Structure of Kazakhstan's Political
Elite and an Assessment of Political Risk Levels (Dosym Satpaev)

12. Regime Formation and Development in Armenia (Alexander Markarov)

Part Six: State Borders and Minorities

13. Drug-Trafficking through the Russia-Kazakhstan Border: Challenge
and Responses (Sergey Golunov)

14. Transnationalism As a Threat to State Security? Case Studies on
Uighurs and Uzbeks in Kazakhstan (Oka Natsuko)

[Note: Japanese names are written with the family name first]

There are two ways to obtain this volume:

1. You can receive a free copy by filling in the following blank and
sending it to Professor Uyama <uyama@slav.hokudai.ac.jp>:

Request form for the book "Empire, Islam, and Politics in Central Eurasia"
Name:
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2. You can download the PDF files of all the chapters at
<http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/coe21/publish/no14_ses/contents.html>.

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