TY - BOOK AU - edited by Vassiliev, Alexei TI - Central Asia: political and economic challenges in the post-Soviet era SN - 0863569137 U1 - 958 PY - 2001/// CY - London PB - Saqi KW - Asia, Central KW - Politics and government KW - Economic conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]) and index; Russia and Central Asia; A.M. Vassiliev --; Part 1. Kazakhstan --; The course towards political stability; N.I. Petrov & M.S. Gafarly --; The economy of Kazakhstan; L.N. Kalinichenko & N.N. Semenova --; Part 2. Uzbekistan --; Political stability in the conditions of the command-administrative regime; N.I. Petrov --; The preservation of the state's dominant positions in the economy; M.S. Gafarly & V.F. Rass --; Part 3. Turkmenistan --; A post-communist authoritarian regime; K.P. Dudarev --; The development of the economy in the 1990s; L.N. Kalinichenko & N.N. Semenova; Part 4. Tajikistan --; The causes and lessons of the Civil War; A.I. Kuzmin --; The economic crisis; M.S. Gafarly, V.D. Chernikov & N.N. Semenova --; Part 5. Kyrghyzstan --; Democratic declarations and political realities; V.F. Kovalskii --; The transition to a modern market economy; N.A. Volgina, M.S. Gafarly & N.N. Semenova ER -