TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hiro,Dilip
TI  - Inside central Asia: a political and cultural history of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran 
SN  - 9781590203330 (pbk.; US ed.) :
AV  - DK858 .H566 2011
PY  - 2011///, c2009.
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Gerald Duckworth
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Asia, Central
KW  - History
KW  - 1901-2000.
KW  - Communism
KW  - History.
KW  - Politics and government.
N1  - Epilogue copyright 2011.; Introduction {u2013} Ch.1. Turkey: from militant secularism to grassroots Islam {u2013} Ch.2. Uzbekistan: the complex hub of Central Asia {u2013} Turkmenistan: molded by a megalomaniac despot {u2013} Ch.4. Kazakhstan: rising oil state courted by big powers {u2013} Ch.5. Kyrgyzstan: the tulip revolution, a false dawn {u2013} Ch.6. Tajikistan: the rise and fall of political Islam {u2013} Ch.7. Iran: the geopolitics of the Islamic revolution {u2013} Summary and conclusions {u2013} Epilogue
ER  -