Democracy and pluralism in Muslim Eurasia / edited by Yaacov Ro'i.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- The democratic tradition of Kazakhstan in historical context / Zhanylzhan Dzhunusova -- Elements of democracy in Dagestan on the eve of the Russian conquest / Moshe Gammer -- The challenge of belonging : the Muslims of late imperial Russia and the contested terrain of identity and gender / Azade-Ayse Rorlich -- The hidden dialogue on constitutionalism between the Russian Provisional Government and the Khivan democracy in 1917 / Dov Yaroshevski -- PART II. POTENTIAL PRESSURE POINTS -- Aid and ideas : the impact of Western economic support on the Muslim successor states / Richard Pomfret -- Islam in the FSU : an inevitable impediment to democracy? / Yaacov Ro'i -- PART III. MUSLIM SUCCESSOR STATES -- Authoritarian pathways in Central Asia : a comparison of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan / Neil J. Melvin -- The formation of political parties and movements in Central Asia / Vladimir Babak -- The price of stability : Kazakhstani control mechanisms under conditions of cultural and demographic bipolarity / Pål Kolstø -- Liberalization in Kyrgyzstan : 'an island of democracy' / Leonid Levitin -- Political clans and political conflicts in contemporary Kyrgyzstan / Vladimir Khanin -- Linguistic policy and the process of democratization in Uzbekistan / Vladimir Mesamed -- Opposition in Tajikistan : pro et contra / Saodat Olimova -- Democracy and civil society building in independent Azerbaijan : irrevocable changes or temporary diversion? / Farda Asadov -- PART IV. MUSLIM REGIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION -- Post-Soviet Tatarstan : democratic strains in the ideological evolution of the Tatar National Movement / Rafik Mukhametshin -- Nation-building and minority rights in post-Soviet Russia : the case of Bashkortostan / Ildus G. Ilishev -- The political process in Dagestan : prospects for democracy / Enver E. Kisriev -- Ethnic relations and democratic transition in the North-Western Caucasus / Svante E. Cornell -- Democratic values and political reality in Chechnya, 1991-1999 / Alexei Kudriavtsev.