Central Asia: Past and Present
Central Asia: Past and Present
Rise of Civilization in Central Asia
Source: After Alexander: Central Asia before Islam
Millet & Wheat - 4500 BCE
Horses - 4000 BCESurpass agriculture -- 1000 BCE
Empire and the Silk Road
Source: After Alexander: Central Asia before Islam
Central Asian Nomadism
Source: The Headless State
Mongol Conquests
Sources:
● The Cambridge history of Inner Asia: the Chinggisid Age
● Imperial statecraft : political forms and techniques of governance in Inner Asia, sixth-twentieth centuries
Timur: Islam and Chinggisid
succession
Sources:
● The Cambridge history of Inner Asia: the Chinggisid Age
● Imperial statecraft : political forms and techniques of governance in Inner Asia, sixth-twentieth centuries
Babur: the Rise of Persianate nobility
Sources:
● The Cambridge history of Inner Asia: the Chinggisid Age
● The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty
● Imperial statecraft : political forms and techniques of governance in Inner Asia, sixth-twentieth centuries
Clientism in the Steppe
Sources:
Imperial statecraft : political forms and techniques of governance in Inner Asia, sixth-twentieth centuries
Kazakh Nomadic Politics & the Russian Steppe Administration 1822-1832 by Virginia Martin (lecture)
Imperial Bountries: Cossack communities and empire-building in the age of Peter the Great
Russian conquest
Sources:
● Islam and the Russian Empire: reform and revolution in central Asia
● The ‘fierce fight’ at Oshoba: a microhistory of the conquest of the Khoqand Khanate
● Central Asia, 130 years of Russian dominance : a historical overview
The Great Game
Sources:
● Islam and the Russian Empire: reform and revolution in central Asia
● The ‘fierce fight’ at Oshoba: a microhistory of the conquest of the Khoqand Khanate
● Central Asia, 130 years of Russian dominance : a historical overview
Russian Colonialism
Sources:
● Islam and the Russian Empire: reform and revolution in central Asia
● The ‘fierce fight’ at Oshoba: a microhistory of the conquest of the Khoqand Khanate
● Central Asia, 130 years of Russian dominance : a historical overview
Reactions to Russian Colonialism
Sources:
● Islam and the Russian Empire: reform and revolution in central Asia
● The ‘fierce fight’ at Oshoba: a microhistory of the conquest of the Khoqand Khanate
● Central Asia, 130 years of Russian dominance : a historical overviewJadid Wahhabism Secularism
VS. VS.
Revolutionary Central Asia
Sources:
The Russian Revolution, 1917-1945
The Russian Revolution by Shelia Fitzpatrick
Sovietization of Central Asia
Sources:
Soviet Central Asia: “A tragic experiment” by Boris Rumer
Soviet Central Asia: the failed transformation by William Fierman
The Modern History of Soviet Central Asia by Geoffrey Wheeler
Soviet Central Asia
Sources:
Soviet Central Asia: “A tragic experiment” by Boris Rumer
Soviet Central Asia: the failed transformation by William Fierman
The Modern History of Soviet Central Asia by Geoffrey Wheeler
Fall of the USSR
Sources:
Baltic Facades by Aldis Purs
The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union: implications for Russia, Central Asia, Trancaucasia, and the Middle East by Carol Benedick
Why did Russia Let the Republics Go? Revisiting the Fall of the USSR by Mackensie Knorr
Independence: Disintegration
Sources:
Institutional Change & Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Power, Perceptions, & Pacts by Pauline Jones Luang et al.
The Central Asian Economies since Independence by Richard Pomfret
The Tajik Civil War & Peace Process by Lynch Dov
Exploring Regime Instability & Ethnic Violence in Kyrgyzstan by Eric Max Mcglinchey
Independence: Centralization
Sources:
Institutional Change & Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Power, Perceptions, & Pacts by Pauline Jones Luang et al.
The Central Asian Economies since Independence by Richard Pomfret
Exploring Regime Instability & Ethnic Violence in Kyrgyzstan by Eric Max Mcglinchey