This is a pioneering study which presents carefully researched data on the some 55 million Turkish-speaking peoples of the former Soviet Union and Central Asia. The historical background of and the recent developments in Central Asia and the Trans-Caucasus are presented in detail. Hostler's conclusions emphasize the present instability and the importance of Central Asia as well as the competing roles of Turkey, Iran, Russia and other countries. This unique book follows a standard, traditional historical approach. Central Asia is a vast, little-understood area of great strategic, political, military, and economic importance, which could be a source of future world instability. Scholars and policymakers will be interested in this source of updated and factual information about a little-known area of increasing significance.
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“. . .a significant resource for background on this less well known area.”–Choice
“The power of this one-volume authoritative source comes not only from its all-inclusive range that covers all Turkish ethnic groups but also from its analysis of the various intellectual paradigms that shaped the Turkic world in the last one hundred years. The chapter on ``Pan Turkism,'' for example, should be consulted by all those who want a crash course in this often misunderstood ideology. If there's one book you'd like to buy and read these days to know the Turkic world better, this is it.”–The Turkish Times
“The power of this one-volume authoritative source comes not only from its all-inclusive range that covers all Turkish ethnic groups but also from its analysis of the various intellectual paradigms that shaped the Turkic world in the last one hundred years. The chapter on ``Pan Turkism,'' for example, should be consulted by all those who want a crash course in this often misunderstood ideology. If there's one book you'd like to buy and read these days to know the Turkic world better, this is it.”–
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DR. CHARLES WARREN HOSTLER was the U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain until March 1993.
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The Turkish world occupies a broad belt of territories extending across Asia from the eastern Mediterranean to Mongolia and reaching in the north to the Middle Volga basin and the Siberian borderline of Kazakhstan. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
special double volume, autonomous oblast, national composition, linguistic policy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Central Asia, Turko Tatar, Soviet Union, Young Turks, Soviet Russia, Enver Pasha, Ottoman Turkish, Crimean Turks, Anatolian Turks, Ottoman Turkey, Great Britain, Golden Horde, United States, Crimean Tatars, Genghis Khan, Kazan Khanate, Kazan Tatar, Middle East, Black Sea, Chinese Turkestan, Ottoman Turks, Near East, North Caucasus, Russian Empire, Unified Turkic Latin New!
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The Turkish world occupies a broad belt of territories extending across Asia from the eastern Mediterranean to Mongolia and reaching in the north to the Middle Volga basin and the Siberian borderline of Kazakhstan. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
special double volume, autonomous oblast, national composition, linguistic policy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Central Asia, Turko Tatar, Soviet Union, Young Turks, Soviet Russia, Enver Pasha, Ottoman Turkish, Crimean Turks, Anatolian Turks, Ottoman Turkey, Great Britain, Golden Horde, United States, Crimean Tatars, Genghis Khan, Kazan Khanate, Kazan Tatar, Middle East, Black Sea, Chinese Turkestan, Ottoman Turks, Near East, North Caucasus, Russian Empire, Unified Turkic Latin New!
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- A Study of History, Vol. 1: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold J. Toynbee in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Muslims of the Soviet Empire: A Guide by Alexandre Bennigsen in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Soviet Disunion by Bohdan Nahaylo in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Turkey's Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: A Changing Role in World Politics by Tareq Y. Ismael on page 159
- Central Asia: One Hundred Thirty Years of Russian Dominance, A Historical Overview, 3rd ed. (Central Asia Book Series) by Edward A. Allworth in Back Matter
- After Atheism: Religion and Ethnicity in Russia and Central Asia (Caucasus World) by David C. Lewis in Back Matter
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