Geographic Perspectives on Soviet Central Asia

by Lewis,Robert; Lewis,Robert

• ISBN13: 9780415075923
• ISBN10: 0415075920
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-04-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book surveys the geography of Soviet Central Asia in the postwar period and highlights geographic issues in the region.Geographic Perspectives on Soviet Central Asiais organized around the unifying themes of integration and the prospects for outmigration of the indigenous population to other parts of the former Soviet Union. The book also covers major geographic issues: regional population growth; the declining level of the Aral Sea; the extent to which investment in Central Asia has been equalized relative to other parts of the former Soviet Union; imperialist tendencies in political integration; geographic segregation by ethnic group and its effect on ethnic processes; the effect of the dominance of investment in primary activities; and the demographic effect of agricultural mechanization.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
References	p. 16
Regional Background	p. 17
The Frontier and Colonialism in Russian and Soviet Central Asia	p. 19
The Political Geography of Soviet Central Asia: Integrating the Central Asian Frontier	p. 37
References and Bibliography	p. 69
The Physical Geography of Soviet Central Asia and the Aral Sea Problem	p. 74
References and Bibliography	p. 96
Economic Geography	p. 99
Soviet Geographical Imbalances and Soviet Central Asia	p. 101
Agricultural Change, Labor Supply, and Rural Out-Migration in Soviet Central Asia	p. 132
References	p. 174
Work Force Composition, Patriarchy, and Social Change	p. 181
References	p. 205
Social Geography	p. 209
The Demography of Soviet Central Asia and its Future Development	p. 211
Demographic Trends in Soviet Central Asia and Southern Kazakhstan	p. 222
Social Mobilization in Soviet Central Asia	p. 251
Nations and Homelands in Soviet Central Asia	p. 279
Notes	p. 308
Index	p. 313
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