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Title Democracy and pluralism in Muslim Eurasia / edited by Yaacov Ro'i
Published London ; New York : Frank Cass, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 403 pages)
Series Cummings Center series ; 19
Cummings Center series ; 19.
Contents The democratic tradition of Kazakhstan in historical context / Zhanylzhan Dzhunusova -- Elements of democracy in Dagestan on the eve of the Russian conquest / Moshe Gammer -- The challenge of belonging : the Muslims of late imperial Russia and the contested terrain of identity and gender / Azade-Ayse Rorlich -- The hidden dialogue on constitutionalism between the Russian Provisional Government and the Khivan democracy in 1917 / Dov Yaroshevski -- Aid and ideas : the impact of Western economic support on the Muslim successor states / Richard Pomfret -- Islam in the FSU : an inevitable impediment to democracy? / Yaacov Ro'i -- Authoritarian pathways in Central Asia : a comparison of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan / Neil J. Melvin -- The formation of political parties and movements in Central Asia / Vladimir Babak -- The price of stability : Kazakhstani control mechanisms under conditions of cultural and demographic bipolarity / Pål Kolstø -- Liberalization in Kyrgyzstan : 'an island of democracy' / Leonid Levitin -- Political clans and political conflicts in contemporary Kyrgyzstan / Vladimir Khanin -- Linguistic policy and the process of democratization in Uzbekistan / Vladimir Mesamed -- Opposition in Tajikistan : pro et contra / Saodat Olimova -- Democracy and civil society building in independent Azerbaijan : irrevocable changes or temporary diversion? / Farda Asadov -- Post-Soviet Tatarstan : democratic strains in the ideological evolution of the Tatar National Movement / Rafik Mukhametshin -- Nation-building and minority rights in post-Soviet Russia : the case of Bashkortostan / Ildus G. Ilishev -- The political process in Dagestan : prospects for democracy / Enver E. Kisriev -- Ethnic relations and democratic transition in the North-Western Caucasus / Svante E. Cornell -- Democratic values and political reality in Chechnya, 1991-1999 / Alexei Kudriavtsev
Summary This book is devoted to the study and analysis of the prospects for democracy among the Muslim ethnicities of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Democracy -- Asia, Central
Democracy -- Russia (Federation) -- Caucasus, Northern
Muslims -- Asia, Central
Muslims -- Russia (Federation) -- Caucasus, Northern
Post-communism -- Asia, Central
Post-communism -- Russia (Federation) -- Caucasus, Northern
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
Democracy
Ethnic relations
Muslims
Post-communism
SUBJECT Asia, Central -- Ethnic relations
Caucasus, Northern (Russia) -- Ethnic relations
Subject Central Asia
Russia (Federation) -- Northern Caucasus
Form Electronic book
Author Ro'i, Yaacov
ISBN 0203009266
9780203009260
9780714652252
0714652253