About the Book

Since Soviet disintegration, there have been varied perceptions about Eurasia's transition. Initially, attention was focused on the changes that became obvious in politics and society and people's orientation towards change. Gradually, there was a re-appraisal of the transformation that occurred, and attempts were made to identify the genesis of change in the Soviet era. Post-Soviet thinking metamorphosed into a realistic appraisal of the continuities rather than the discontinuities of the two periods. It is this duality of transition that has been focused upon in the book Communities, Institutions and Transition in post-1991 Eurasia. The contributions in the volume convey the central theme that transition in Eurasia is a continuing and expanding discourse about space and identity.

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About Author

Dr. Suchandana Chatterjee, Fellow, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata.
Dr. Anita Sengupta, Fellow, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata.

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Contents

Introduction  ix

Part 1 Trends and Debates on Transition

1.  Triple Transition in Post-Soviet Eurasia

P.L. Dash

2.  Conceptual Transformation of East Siberia’s Geographical Space during the Transition Period, late 1980s–early 2000s 

Vsevolod Bashkuev

3.  Inner Asia: Glimpses of a Cosmopolitan Space

Suchandana Chatterjee

4.  Ideological Debates in the Context of Transition: A Case Study of Kyrgyzstan

Asel Murzakulova

5.  Typology of Russian Transition Periods

V.A. Lamin

6.  The ‘Frontier’ Revisited—Trends in Siberian Historiography 

Denis Anan’ev

Part 2 Institutions in Transition

7.  Pre-Soviet, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Central Asia: The Case of Uzbekistan

Farkhod Tolipov

8.  Pre and Post-Soviet: The Role of Rigid Social  Forms

Oleg A. Donskikh

9.  The ‘Turkish Model’ and the Turkic World

Anita Sengupta

10.  National Culture in the Context of Globalization

Abdurahim Juraev

11.  Central Eurasia: The Paradigm Shift and Power Configurations

Debidutta Aurobinda Mohapatra

Part 3 Economies and Politics in Transition

12.  Economic Crisis in Russia and Central Asia: Causes and Consequences

R.G. Gidadhubli

13.  Convergence between Economics of Transition and Development Economics in Post-1991 Eurasia

Gulshan Sachdeva

14.  Evaluation of the Competitiveness of North-South Transport Corridor

Vladimir Yu Malov

15.  Informal Cross Border Exchanges: Reaction to Institutional Transition (Russian-Chinese Border Case)

Natalia Ryzhova

16.  Logics of Semi-presidentialism and Post-communist Politics

Kimitaka Matsuzato

17.  Democratic Transition and Development in Post-Soviet Central Asian Communities

Habibollah Abolhassan Shirazi

18.  Post-1991 Mongolia: A Paradigm of Peaceful Democratic Transition

Sharad K. Soni

Part 4  Communities and Ethnicities in Transition

19.  Ethnic and Religious Identity in the Borderland of Cultures 

O.V. Buraeva

20.  Kiryar in Khorog: An Ethnography of the Changes and Continuities in ‘Community Social Capital’ from Socialist to Post-Socialist Tajikistan

Fayaz Noormohamed

21.  Social and Economic Changes in the Transition: The Case of Suusamir Valley in Kyrgyzstan

Ilhan Sahin

22.  The Interaction of Ethnocultural and Ethnopolitical Processes in Russia during the 1990s: A Case Study of the All-Buryat Association for the Development of Culture

Marina N. Baldano

23.  Buryat National Idea: Continuity and/or Discontinuity of Tradition

Svetlana Baldano

24.  “Ethnic Markets” of the Post-Soviet Era: The Mechanism of Supply, Institution and Social Organism

V.I. Dyatlov

25.  Business Culture of Chinese Traders in Pre-Revolutionary Russia Through the Eyes of Russian Contemporaries 

E.V. Dyatlova

26.  Indian Business and Businessmen in Russia: A Perspective  on International Migration in the late 20th Century

Hari Vasudevan

Part 5 Religion and Culture in Transition

27.  Turkish Islamic Movements and their Contribution to the Islamic Revival of Central Asia

Bayram Balci

28.  Buddhism and Contemporary Religious Processes in Post-socialist Mongolia

Tsymzhit Vanchikova

29.  The Cult of Saints within Siberian Islam: Anthropological Approach to Studying of Pre-Soviet Tradition and Post-Soviet Transitions

Alexandr Seleznev and Irina Selezneva

30.  Tajikistan: Challenge of Religious Extremism in the Post Soviet Period

Nirmala Joshi

31.  Dynamics of Transition: Films from Central Asia

Rashmi Doraiswamy

32.  Linguistic Transformations in the Post-Soviet Space of Central Asia During the Transition Period

Maria I. Gritsko

Contributors

List of Russian Translations

Index  

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