Books – Interviews of Central Asian Afgantsy who fought in Afghanistan during the Soviet Invasion of 1979-1989

Интервью с воинами-интернационалистами Афганской войны 1979-1989 годов

http://centralasiaprogram.org/publications/memos-and-ebooks

EBook – Интервью с воинами – интернационалистами Афганской войны 1979-1989 годов

AfgИнтервью с воинами – интернационалистами Афганской войны 1979-1989 годов

(Interviews with Central Asian Afgantsy – participants in the Soviet-Afghan war, 1979-1989)

Под редакцией Марлен Ларюэль, Ботагоз Ракишевой

(Marlene Laruelle, Botagoz Rakisheva, eds) 

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PIPSS.ORG – Call for contributors – Issue 17 (Autumn 2015) – “Women in arms: from the Russian Empire to Post-Soviet States”

logo-pipssPIPSS.ORG – Call for contributors – Issue 17 (Autumn 2015) – “Women in arms: from the Russian Empire to Post-Soviet States”

Issue Editors: Amandine Regamey, Brandon Schechter, Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski

Book – Erica Marat, “The military and the state in Central Asia: from Red Army to independence”

Erica Marat, The military and the state in Central Asia: from Red Army to independence, New York: Routledge, 2009.

The military played a pivotal role in the political development, state functions, foreign policy and the daily lives of the people in the Central Asian states from the early twentieth century until the present. This book is the first major, in-depth study of the military institutions in Central Asian states. Continue reading