Religion and Tradition in Rural Central Asia
by
Sergei P. Poliakov, Martha Brill Olcott
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
With a rapidly growing population, deteriorating economic and environmental conditions, and an unstable imperial centre, Soviet Central Asia would seem destined to become one of the world's trouble spots. Why then the apparent political quiet? This book argues that this perception is, in itself, a...