Central Asia on Its Own

Issue Date January 1993
Volume 4
Issue 1
Page Numbers 92-103
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About the Author

Martha Brill Olcott, professor of political science at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, is currently a resident scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. She is the author of The Kazakhs (1987) and the editor of Religion and Tradition in Islamic Central Asia (forthcoming).

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