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Title

Ferghana Valley : the heart of Central Asia / edited by S. Frederick Starr, with Baktybek Beshimov, Inomjon I. Bobokulov, and Pulat Shozimov

Publication

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Beshimov, Baktybek.
• Bobokulov, Inomjon I.
• Shozimov, P. D.
• Starr, S. Frederick

Description

xx, 442 p. : ill, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

With some twelve million inhabitants, the Ferghana valley is one of the most densely populated places in the world. It is also the most volatile region of formerly Soviet Central Asia. Not only is the area ethnically and linguistically diverse, it is politically divided, with parts ruled by three different states--Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and the Kyrgyz Republic--whose distant capital cities all relegate Ferghana to their respective peripheries. These complexities make a comprehensive, multidimensional understanding of the Ferghana region all the more elusive. In order to construct this analysis, the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute assembled an international, interdisciplinary team of experts on the region. Their carefully planned, collaboratively authored chapters cover the historical and topical terrain with unmatched depth and breadth and balance. --Publisher description.

Series Statement

Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus

Uniform Title

Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Subject

• Fergana Valley > Geography
• Fergana Valley > History
• Fergana Valley > Social conditions

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introducing the Ferghana Valley / S. Frederick Starr -- 1. The Ferghana Valley : the pre-colonial legacy / Abdukakhor Saidov (Tajikistan), with Abdulkhamid Anarbaev (Uzbekistan) and Valentina Goriyacheva (Kyrgyz Republic) -- 2. The rise and fall of the Kokand Khanate / Victor Dubovitskii (Tajikistan), with Khaydarbek Bababekov (Uzbekistan) -- 3. Colonial rule and indigenous responses, 1860-1917 / Ravshan Abdullaev (Uzbekistan), with Namoz Khotamov (Tajikistan) and Tashmanbet Kenensariev (Kyrgyz Republic) -- 4. Soviet rule and the delineation of borders in the Ferghana Valley, 1917-1930 / Sergey Abashin (Russia), with Kamoludin Abdullaev (Tajikistan), Ravshan Abdullaev (Uzbekistan), and Arslan Koichiev (Kyrgyz Republic) -- 5. The Ferghana Valley under Stalin, 1929-1953 / Kamoludin Abdullaev (Tajikistan), with Ravshan Nazarov (Uzbekistan) -- 6. The Ferghana Valley in the eras of Khrushchev and Brezhnev / Ravshan Nazarov (Uzbekistan), with Pulat Shozimov (Tajikistan) --^
• 7. Cultural life in the Ferghana Valley under Khrushchev and Brezhnev / Zukhra Madamidzhanova (Tajikistan), with Ildar Mukhtarov (Uzbekistan) -- 8. The Ferghana Valley during perestroika, 1985-1991 / Pulat Shozimov (Tajikistan), with Baktybek Beshimov (Kyrgyz Republic) and Khurshida Yunusova (Uzbekistan) -- 9. A new phase in the history of the Ferghana Valley, 1992-2008 / Baktybek Beshimov (Kyrgyz Republic), with Pulat Shozimov (Tajikistan) and Murat Bakhadyrov (Uzbekistan) -- 10. Economic development in the Ferghana Valley since 1991 / Sayidfozil Zokirov (Uzbekistan), with Khojamahmad Umarov (Tajikistan) -- 11. Land, water, and ecology / Christine Bichsel (Switzerland), with Kholnazar Mukhabbatov (Tajikistan) and Lenzi Sherfedinov (Uzbekistan) -- 12. Culture in the Ferghana Valley since 1991 : the issue of identity / Pulat Shozimov (Tajikistan), with Joomart Sulaimanov (Kyrgyz Republic) and Shamshad Abdullaev (Uzbekistan) --^
• 13. Islam in the Ferghana Valley : between national identity and Islamic alternative / Bakhtiyar Babadjanov (Uzbekistan), with Kamil Malikov (Kyrgyz Republic) and Aloviddin Nazarov (Tajikistan) -- 14. The Ferghana Valley and the international community / Inomjon I. Bobokulov (Uzbekistan) -- Conclusion / S. Frederick Starr.

ISBN

• 9780765629982 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0765629984 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0765629992
• 9780765629999

LCCN

^^2010044468

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library