A unique analysis of language policies in the central Asian states of the former Soviet Union

This book examines how Muslims and Christians in Russia use religious variants of the Russian and Tatar languages to sustain, challenge and subvert relations of

A detailed academic treatise of the history of nationality in Tatarstan. The book demonstrates how state collapse and national revival influenced the divergence

The terrible events afflicting Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Tajikistan fill the news, commanding the world's attention. This timely volume offers rare insi

Nationalist leaders in the former Soviet states strive for national identity in both the political and cultural domains. Their language policies contend with Ru