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Searching for Identity: The Independent States of Central Asia: Part One |
| Section: CULTURE / CROSSROADS |
| Author: Ewa Wasilewska |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 3,102 Words, 20,033 Characters |
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Westerners are alarmed by stories about the disastrous effects of Soviet policy in the steppe, supported by terrifying eyewitness accounts and documented by the environmental horrors of nuclear experiments in Kazakhstan and the shrinking of the Aral Sea. Accounts of "mafia" organizations scavenging Central Asia and reports of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism also discourage travel to the area. However, all these stories did not quench my desire to see the land traversed by the legendary Silk Road and the merciless raiders of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane (Timur the Lame).
I went to Central Asia in search of the truth about the land and its people. I counted on several factors: luck, my knowledge of Russian and some Turkic languages, the benefits of formal education and the experience of ...
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...rst time in their history. This is a difficult task because the pre-Soviet experience of so-called imperial confederacies, which suited the nomadic peoples of the steppe so well, cannot be used in the formation of state identity. Although they shared the past and hope to share the future, each country deals with different problems, which determine the direction of further search for identity.
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