Yeni Orta Asya ya da Ulusların İmal Edilişi

Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan: How can we understand the reality of these new nation-states established by declaring independence in the 1990s? What has changed in Central Asia? What remained unchanged? Will we see these countries as oil republics similar to "banana republics" in the near future?
French researcher Olivier Roy thinks that the picture they draw today cannot be understood without grasping the historical fact that all of these new states are Soviet inventions in terms of language, territory and ethnic population structure. In his book, which is based on many years of observation and research in the region, he covers the social, cultural and political history of Central Asia in the 20th century, starting from the conquest of the region by Russia. It describes the Muslim reformist movements in the Russian Empire, the sovietization of the region after the Bolshevik Revolution, the USSR's policy of nationalities and ethnicization, and the reformation of old solidarity groups under Soviet rule; It evaluates the present day of the region in terms of Islam and nationalism and the relations of the new states with Russia, Turkey, Iran and the USA in the emerging new geostrategic context.
The current history told by Olivier Roy will show the reader very well what kind of distortions, ignorance and weaknesses our perspective from Turkey to these "distant and close relatives" in Central Asia carries...



Number of Pages: 272

Year of Printing: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

First Print Year: 2015

Number of Pages: 272

Language Turkish