Central Asia: Past and Present

Rise of Civilization in Central Asia

Source: After Alexander: Central Asia before Islam

Millet & Wheat - 4500 BCE

Horses - 4000 BCESurpass agriculture -- 1000 BCE

Empire and the Silk Road

Source: After Alexander: Central Asia before Islam

Central Asian Nomadism

Source: The Headless State

Mongol Conquests

Sources:

● The Cambridge history of Inner Asia: the Chinggisid Age

● Imperial statecraft : political forms and techniques of governance in Inner Asia, sixth-twentieth centuries

Timur: Islam and Chinggisid

succession

Sources:

● The Cambridge history of Inner Asia: the Chinggisid Age

● Imperial statecraft : political forms and techniques of governance in Inner Asia, sixth-twentieth centuries

Babur: the Rise of Persianate nobility

Sources:

● The Cambridge history of Inner Asia: the Chinggisid Age

● The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty

● Imperial statecraft : political forms and techniques of governance in Inner Asia, sixth-twentieth centuries

Clientism in the Steppe

Sources:

Imperial statecraft : political forms and techniques of governance in Inner Asia, sixth-twentieth centuries

Kazakh Nomadic Politics & the Russian Steppe Administration 1822-1832 by Virginia Martin (lecture)

Imperial Bountries: Cossack communities and empire-building in the age of Peter the Great

Russian conquest

Sources:

● Islam and the Russian Empire: reform and revolution in central Asia

● The ‘fierce fight’ at Oshoba: a microhistory of the conquest of the Khoqand Khanate

● Central Asia, 130 years of Russian dominance : a historical overview

The Great Game

Sources:

● Islam and the Russian Empire: reform and revolution in central Asia

● The ‘fierce fight’ at Oshoba: a microhistory of the conquest of the Khoqand Khanate

● Central Asia, 130 years of Russian dominance : a historical overview

Russian Colonialism

Sources:

● Islam and the Russian Empire: reform and revolution in central Asia

● The ‘fierce fight’ at Oshoba: a microhistory of the conquest of the Khoqand Khanate

● Central Asia, 130 years of Russian dominance : a historical overview

Reactions to Russian Colonialism

Sources:

● Islam and the Russian Empire: reform and revolution in central Asia

● The ‘fierce fight’ at Oshoba: a microhistory of the conquest of the Khoqand Khanate

● Central Asia, 130 years of Russian dominance : a historical overviewJadid Wahhabism Secularism

VS. VS.

Revolutionary Central Asia

Sources:

The Russian Revolution, 1917-1945

The Russian Revolution by Shelia Fitzpatrick

Sovietization of Central Asia

Sources:

Soviet Central Asia: “A tragic experiment” by Boris Rumer

Soviet Central Asia: the failed transformation by William Fierman

The Modern History of Soviet Central Asia by Geoffrey Wheeler

Soviet Central Asia

Sources:

Soviet Central Asia: “A tragic experiment” by Boris Rumer

Soviet Central Asia: the failed transformation by William Fierman

The Modern History of Soviet Central Asia by Geoffrey Wheeler

Fall of the USSR

Sources:

Baltic Facades by Aldis Purs

The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union: implications for Russia, Central Asia, Trancaucasia, and the Middle East by Carol Benedick

Why did Russia Let the Republics Go? Revisiting the Fall of the USSR by Mackensie Knorr

Independence: Disintegration

Sources:

Institutional Change & Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Power, Perceptions, & Pacts by Pauline Jones Luang et al.

The Central Asian Economies since Independence by Richard Pomfret

The Tajik Civil War & Peace Process by Lynch Dov

Exploring Regime Instability & Ethnic Violence in Kyrgyzstan by Eric Max Mcglinchey

Independence: Centralization

Sources:

Institutional Change & Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Power, Perceptions, & Pacts by Pauline Jones Luang et al.

The Central Asian Economies since Independence by Richard Pomfret

Exploring Regime Instability & Ethnic Violence in Kyrgyzstan by Eric Max Mcglinchey