TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones Luong,Pauline
TI  - The transformation of Central Asia: states and societies from Soviet rule to independence 
AV  - HN670.J76.T736 2004 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
N1  - 1 (pages 287-313) and index; Politics in the periphery: competing views of Central Asian states and societies; Pauline Jones Luong --; retreat of the state: women and the social sphere. Between women and the state: Mahalla committees and social welfare in Uzbekistan; Marianne Kamp  --; Women, marriage, and the nation-state: the rise of nonconsensual bride kidnapping in post-Soviet Kazakhstan; Cynthia Werner  --; Linking state and society: culture and language. Cultural elites in Uzbekistan: ideological production and the state; Laura Adams --; shrinking reach of the state? Language policy and implementation in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan; Bhavna Dave --; state against itself: central-regional relations. The limits of centralization: regional challenges in Uzbekistan; Alisher Ilkhamov  --; Economic "decentralization" in Kazakhstan: causes and consequences; Pauline Jones Luong  --; Redefining the state: internal and external forces. The civic realm in Kyrgyzstan: Soviet economic legacies and activists' expectations; Kelly M. McMann. Beyond the state: transnational actors, NGOs, and environmental protection in Central Asia; Erika Weinthal --; Central Asia's contribution to theories of the state; Pauline Jones Luong; 2
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