Minorities, mullahs, and modernity : reshaping community in the former Soviet Union

Rethinking Islam in the Soviet Union -- The Islamic clergy and communityin the Soviet Union -- The reinterpretation and adaptation of Soviet Islam -- The restructuring of Soviet Islam in the Gorbachev era: interethnic fragmentationand thematic continuity -- Ambivalence, authority, and the problem of popular Islam -- Majority-minority relations in the Soviet republics -- Beyond the nation-state: culture and ethnic politics in Soviet Transcaucasia -- Trouble in the Transcaucasus -- The "Karabakh syndrome" and Azerbaijani politics -- The Armenian protests: is it passion or politics? -- Representation as a realm of conflict: two examples from Soviet Armenian literature -- Azerbaijan looks "west": new trends in foreign relations with Iran and Turkey.