Central Asia: General
(see also Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirgyzstan, Turkmenistan & Kazakhstan)
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
On the Web: Articles
Beyond Ukraine. Amitabh Pal, Progressive (2/05). Bush sides with dictators of ex-Soviet republics of Central Asia.
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Central Asia/Caucasus Institute
Central Asia & the Caucasus (Center for Social & Political Studies)
Central Asia a survey of the region and the five republics. Shirin Akiner, UNHCR (2000).
Central Asia Working Papers, Prof. Iraj Bashiri.
Institute for War & Peace Reporting.
Interactive Central Asia Resource Project (ICARP).
In the Library: Articles
Halliday, Fred. "The empires strike back: Russia, Iran & the new republics," World Today 51,11 (11/95):220-22.
Karpat, Kemal. "Turkish relations with Central Asia," International Journal of Turkish Studies 6 (1996).
Laitin, D.D. "Language & nationalism in the post-Soviet republics," Post-Soviet Affairs 12,1 (1996):4-24.
Likhanov, ? "Organized crime in Central Asia," Telos 75 (spr 1988).
Rashid, Ahmed. "They're only sleeping. Why militant Islamicists in Central
Asia aren't going to go away," New Yorker (1/14/02):34-41
Roston, Aram. "Central Asia's heroin problem," Nation (3/25/02):23-26.
Roy, Olivier. "Crude manoeuvres: the Caspian region's oil & gas supplies," Index on Censorship 26,4 (7-8/97):144-52.
Spuler, B. "Central Asia from the 16th c. to the Russian conquests," in P.M. Holt et al. (eds.) Cambridge History of Islam, vol. I-A (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 462-502
von Hagen, Mark. "Empires, borderlands & diasporas: Eurasia as anti-paradigm for the post-Soviet era," American Historical Review 109,2 (4/04):445-68.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Allworth, Edward (ed.) Central Asia: A Century of Russian Rule (NY: Columbia, 1966).
Anon. Energy, Wealth & Development in Central Asia & the Caucasus (Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research, 1999).
Atabaki, Touraj & John O'Kane (eds.) Post-Soviet Central Asia (London: Tauris Academic Studies, 1998).
Bacon, Elizabeth E. Central Asians under Russian Rule: A Study in Culture Change (Ithaca: Cornell, 1966).
Bertsch, Gary K. et al. (eds.) Crossroads & Conflict: Security & Foreign Policy in the Caucasus & Central Asia (NY: Routledge, 1999).
Caroe, Olaf. Soviet Empire: The Turks of Central Asia & Stalinism (Toronto, 1967).
Coates, W.P. & Zelda K. Coates. Soviets in Central Asia (London, 1951). Pro-Soviet survey.
Cummings, Sally (ed.) Power & Change in Central Asia (NY: Routledge, 2002).
D'Encausse, Helene Carrere. Islam & the Russian Empire. Reform & Revolution in Central Asia (Berkeley: California, 1989).
Capisani, Giampaolo R. The Handbook of Central Asia: A Comprehensive
Survey of the New Republics (NY: I.B. Tauris, 2000).
Dawisha, Karen. Russia & The New States of Eurasia: the politics of upheaval (Cambridge: Cambridge U., 2003)
Gleason, Gregory. The Central Asian States: Discovering Independence (Boulder: Westview, 1997).
__________. Markets & Politics in Central Asia (NY: Routledge, 2002).
Hambly, Gavin (ed.) Central Asia (NY, 1969).
Hiro, Dilip. Between Marx & Muhammad: The Changing Face of Central
Asia (London: HarperCollins, 1994).
Hopkirk, Peter. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia [1990] (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1994). Tsarist Russia & Great Britain.
Humphrey, Caroline & David Sneath (eds.) Culture & Environment in Inner Asia (Cambridge: White Horse, 1996).
__________ & David Sneath (eds.) The End of Nomadism? Society, State & the Environment in Inner Asia (Durham NC: Duke, 1999).
Hyman, Anthony. Power & Politics in Central Asia's New Republics (London: Research Institute for the Study of Conflict & Terrorism, 1994).
Islamov, Bakhtior. The Central Asian States Ten Years After: How to Overcome Traps of Development, Transformation & Globalization? (Tokyo: Maruzen, 2001).
Laitin, David D. Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Population in the Near Abroad (Ithaca NY: Cornell, 1991).
Landau, Jacob M. & Barbara Kellner-Heinkele. Politics of Language in the Ex-Soviet Muslim States (London: C. Hurst, 2001).
Legg, Stuart. The Heartland (NY, 1970). Social history of Central Asia.
Luong, Pauline Jones. Institutional Change & Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia (NY: Cambridge, 2002).
Mandelbaum, Michael (ed.) Central Asia & the World: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan & Turkmenistan (NY: Council on Foreign Relations, 1994).
Manz, Beatrice F. Central Asia in Historical Perspective (Boulder: Westview, 1998).
Melvin, Neil. Russians beyond Russia: The Politics of National Identity (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1995).
__________ & Charles King (eds.) Nations Abroad: Diaspora Politics & International Relations in the Former Soviet Union (Boulder: Westview, 1998).
Meyer, Karl E. & Shareen Blair Brysac. Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game & the Race for Empire in Central Asia (Boulder: Counterpoint, 2000).
__________. The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland (NY: Public Affairs, 2003).
Micklin, Philip P. The Water Management Crisis in Soviet Central Asia (Pittsburgh: U. Pittsburgh, 1991).
__________ & William D. Williams (eds.) The Aral Sea Basin (NY: Springer-Verlag, 1996).
Olcott, Martha Brill. Central Asia's New States: Independence, Foreign Policy, & Regional Security (Washington: US Institute for Peace, 1996).
__________, Anders Aslund & Sherman W. Garnett. Getting It Wrong: Regional Cooperation & the Commonwealth of Independent States (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1999).
Perdue, Peter C. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Cambridge MA: Harvard U., 2005). Mongolia, Xinjiang & Tibet.
Pierce, Richard A. Russian Central Asia, 1867-1917: A Study in Colonial Rule (Berkeley: California, 1960).
Poliakov, Sergei. Everyday Islam: Religion & Tradition in Rural Central Asia (Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1992).
Rashid, Ahmed. Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia (New Haven: Yale, 2002).
Roy, Olivier. The New Central Asia: The Creation of Nations (NY: NYU, 2001).
Scheldel, Willem van & Erik Jan Zurcher (eds.) Identity Politics in Central Asia & the Muslim World: Nationalism, Ethnicity & Labour in the 20th C. (NY: I.B. Tauris, 2001).
Seton-Watson, Hugh. The Russian Empire, 1801-1917 (Oxford, 1967).
Sokol, Edward. The Revolt of 1916 in Central Asia (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1953).
Strong, Anna Louise. Red Star in Samarkand (NY: Coward-McCann, 1929).
Soucek, Svat. A History of Inner Asia (NY: Cambridge, 2000).
Suny, Ronald Grigor. The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution & the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Stanford: Stanford U, 1993).
__________. The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, & the Successor States (NY: Oxford, 1998).
Tillett, Lowell R. The Great Friendship: Soviet Historians on the Non-Russian Nationalities (Chapel Hill, 1969).
Van der Leeuw, Charles. Oil & Gas in the Caucasus & Caspian: A History (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2000).
Wheeler, Geoffrey. The Modern History of Soviet Central Asia (NY, 1964).
Winrow, Gareth M. Turkey in Post-Soviet Central Asia (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1995).
In the Library: Fiction
Bissell, Tom. God Lives in St. Petersburg (NY: Pantheon, 2005). Short stories.