Contributor
Ro'i, Yaacov.
Imprint:London ; Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1984.
Descriptionxv, 298 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:"Based on papers given at a conference held by the Russian and East European Research Center at Tel Aviv University in December 1980"--Acknowledgments.
Note:PART ONE: THE SOVIET DOMESTIC CONTEXT: SOCIO-POLITICAL ASPECTS: National symbiosis: vitality, religion, identity, allegiance / Michael Rywkin -- The central government and peripheral opposition in Khiva, 1910-24 / Dov B. Yaroshevski -- Central Asian political participation and Soviet political development / Steven L. Burg -- Trends in the Soviet Muslim population: demographic aspects / Murray Feshbach -- The Soviet Muslim population: trends in living standards, 1960-1975 / Alastair McAuley -- PART TWO. THE SOVIET DOMESTIC CONTEXT: CULTURAL AND IDEOLOGICAL ASPECTS: The significance of increasing bilingualism among Soviet Muslims / Paul B. Heinze -- The effect of the USSR's language policy on the national languages of its Turkic population / Michael Bruchis -- The impact of the Islamic fundamentalism revivial of the late 1970s on the Soviet view of Islam / Yaacov Ro'i -- PART THREE: FOREIGN POLICY ASPECTS: Soviet Central Asia: a model of non-capitalist development for the Third World / Teresa Rakowska-Harmstone -- Soviet experience of Muslim guerrilla warfare and the war in Afghanistan / Chantal Lemercier-Quelquejay, Alexandre Bennigsen -- First steps in Soviet diplomacy toward Afghanistan, 1917-21 / Michael Volodarsky -- Soviet policy and the constraints of nationalism in Iran and Afghanistan / Marvin G. Weinbaum -- Saudi Arabia's attitude toward the USSR, 1977-80: between Saudi pragmatism and Islamic conversatism / Jacob Goldberg -- Dilemmas of Arab communism: the case of the Syrian Communist party, 1969-73 / Dina Kehat.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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