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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

R. D. McChesney
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Iranian Studies , Volume 21 , Issue 1-2: Soviet and North American Studies on Central Asia , 1988 , pp. 5 - 9
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1988

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1 The term “Central Asia” here corresponds to the definition given by Yuri Bregel in a lecture delivered at Harvard and The Hebrew University in 1978 and later published by the Afghanistan Council of the Asia Society (Occasional Paper, No. 20, February 1980, p. 1) to wit: “Western, Eastern, and the Afghan Turkestan and the areas within the Soviet Union termed the ‘Central Asian Republics’, according to current Soviet usage, and Kazakhstan.”

2 Spuler, Bertold, “Central Asia: the last three centuries of independence”, In Bagley, F. R. C., ed., The Muslim World: A Historical Survey, Part III, The Last Great Muslim Empires, Leiden, 1969, p. 237.Google Scholar

3 Ibid, p. 244