Glenn E. Curtis, ed. Uzbekistan: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress,
1996.
Acknowledgments
Preface
History
Early History
The Early Islamic Period
Mawarannahr
The Mongol Period
Timur
The Uzbek Period
Arrival of the Russians
The Russian Conquest
Entering the Twentieth Century
The Jadidists and Basmachis
The Stalinist Period
Rashidov
The 1980s
Independence
Geography
Climate
Environment
Population
Size and Distribution
Ethnic Composition
Other Social Affiliations
Language and Literature
Linguistic Background
Influences in the Soviet Period
Language in the 1990s
Literature
Religion
Islam in the Soviet Era
Islamic Fundamentalism
Mainstream Islam in the 1990s
Education
Education System
Curriculum
Instruction
Health
Health Care System
Health Conditions
The Economy
Gold
Energy
Agriculture
Industry
Labor Force
Postcommunist Economic Reform
Structural and Legal Reform
Banking and Finance
Government
Postindependence Changes
The Constitution
Local Government
Political Parties
The Media
Human Rights
Foreign Relations
Central Asian States
Russia and the CIS
The Middle East and Pakistan
China
Western Europe and Japan
The United States
Bibliography
Country Studies Index
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