Brutalism East: majestic concrete meets ornament and color in the revelatory world of Soviet Asian architecture Soviet Asia explores the Soviet modernist architecture of Central Asia. Italian photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego crossed the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, documenting buildings constructed from the 1950s un...(展开全部)

Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples examines the racialization of identities and its impact on mixed couples and families in Soviet Central Asia. In marked contrast to its Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union celebrated mixed marriages among its diverse ethnic groups as a sign of the unbreakable friendship of peoples and the imminent emergence of a single "Soviet people." ...(展开全部)

A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central Asia in World History, Peter B. Golden provid...(展开全部)

Peter B. Golden is Professor Emeritus of History and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program, Rutgers University.

A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central Asia in World History, Peter B. Golden provid...(展开全部)

Central Asia, known as the home of Tamerlane and the Silk Road, is a crossroads of great cultures and civilizations. In 1991 five nations at the heart of the region -- Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan -- suddenly became independent. Today they sit strategically between Russia, China, and Iran and hold some of the world's largest deposits of oil an...(展开全部)

Peter B. Golden is Professor Emeritus of History and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program, Rutgers University.

乔治·寇松（乔治·纳撒尼尔·寇松，George Nathaniel Curzon，1859—1925），英国著名保守党政治家和学者，曾任印度总督、外交大臣。1859年出生于英国的贵族家庭，早年就读于伊顿公学与牛津大学巴利奥尔学院，在牛津大学求学时对英国的中亚和印度事务表现出了浓厚的兴趣。1885年毕业后加入保守党担任索尔兹伯里的秘书，1886年当选保守党的下议院议员，1887年以议员身份游历考察中亚、波斯（今伊朗）、阿富汗、印度、东南亚和俄国和中国，谙熟亚洲历史文化。1891—1892年任印度事务次官，1895—1898年任外交次官，1899年擢任英属印度总督（年仅40岁），任期间实行高压统治，组织觐见大典，推行《大学法》，设置西北边境省，出兵西藏，分割孟加拉，一系列举措致使英印矛盾激化，导致印度人民反英斗争爆发，终于1905年辞职回国。1907年出...(展开全部)

乔治·寇松（乔治·纳撒尼尔·寇松，George Nathaniel Curzon，1859—1925），英国著名保守党政治家和学者，曾任印度总督、外交大臣。1859年出生于英国的贵族家庭，早年就读于伊顿公学与牛津大学巴利奥尔学院，在牛津大学求学时对英国的中亚和印度事务表现出了浓厚的兴趣。1885年毕业后加入保守党担任索尔兹伯里的秘书，1886年当选保守党的下议院议员，1887年以议员身份游历考察中亚、波斯（今伊朗）、阿富汗、印度、东南亚和俄国和中国，谙熟亚洲历史文化。1891—1892年任印度事务次官，1895—1898年任外交次官，1899年擢任英属印度总督（年仅40岁），任期间实行高压统治，组织觐见大典，推行《大学法》，设置西北边境省，出兵西藏，分割孟加拉，一系列举措致使英印矛盾激化，导致印度人民反英斗争爆发，终于1905年辞职回国。1907年出...(展开全部)