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	The Transformation Of Central Asia by Pauline Jones Luong
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In this superb collection of essays , eight scholars brings new data and fresh insights to key questions of the relationship of state and society in post-Soviet Central Asia that requires us to rethink convientitly understanding of the region . Instead of a simple rejection of the Communist past and a return to traditionalism or Islam, the transformation has incorporate large doses of the Soviet experience. The Transformation of Central Asia is based on extensive field work deep local knowledge and conceptual sophistication. it is a major contribution both to our knowledge of Central Asia and to the theoretical discussions of the state . The contributions to this volume compare a state building and state society interaction in the five post Soviet Central Asian State. In the process they offer us some surprising and compelling insights about national , religious , gender and regiional identities in Central Asia: about political and economic relations between the centre and the regions and about the impact of the international system on the development of these states societies and economics. This stroy of a Soviet past that shapes politics , cultures, and economics is a conveying one, because the scholars writing in this volume combines deep knowledge of the region with a commitment to comparative theory."