TY - BOOK AU - GLEASON Gregory TI - The Central Asian states: discovering independence SN - 0813318351 (pbk.): PY - 1997/// CY - Boulder, Colo., USA PB - Westview Press KW - CENTRAL ASIA KW - ECONOMY KW - POLITICS N2 - After tracing the incorporation of Central Asia into the Soviet system, the region's development under communism and the political problems caused by the Soviet collapse, the author goes on to examine the political and economic evolution of the newly independent states ER -