Modern
History of Central Asia
Contemporary
Central Asia
Welcome to Slavomir
Horak’s web page for Free University of Tbilisi students. You are able to find
the information concerning the courses taught at the university – syllabuses,
requirements for students as well as useful links for the courses. In case of
any question you are encouraged to contact me on my e-mail
slavomir.horak[at]post.cz.
Post-Soviet Central Asia
in the World – syllabus of the course
Программа
курса «Новая
и новейшая
история
Центральной
Азии»
The
system of the course:
1 hour of
lecture introducing the specific issue
1 hour of
seminar with discussion on case studies based on reading requirements.
Examining:
Active
participation at the presentations on the topics of the courses
Useful
links for the contemporary Central Asia
Оазис (http://www.ca-oasis.info). Bi-weekly analysis and field reports on current political and social issues
in Central Asia with strong human right aspect . Publisher by The Centre for
Extreme Journalism (RU).
International Crisis Group (http://www.crisisgroup.org,
http://www.icg.org). Deeper occasional
reports from hot regions, including Central Asia, Iran and Afghanistan (EN,
partly RU or local languages).
Transitions On-line (www.tol.cz).
Prague-based weekly e-mail briefing on political development in former USSR.
Free subscription for citizens of CIS countries and Georgia (EN)
Centrasia.ru (www.centrasia.ru).
Moscow-based web site collecting articles and analyses on Central Asia,
Afghanistan and selectively Iran, Pakistan and other Eurasian countries (RU)
Ferghana.ru (http://www.ferghana.ru).
Analysis on current political and social issues as well as historical sketches
on Central Asia (RU, partly UZ, EN)
Institute for War and Peace Reporting (http://www.iwpr.net). Reports and analyses from various parts of the world, including large section on Central Asia (EN, partly RU or local languages)
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty(http://www.rferl.org>).
Daily news and analysis on Central Asia affairs (EN and local languages).
Восточная литература (www.vostlit.info). Extremely useful sites with resources on history of Central Asia in Russian as well as history of Asian and European countries/regions.
Turkestan
library/Туркестанская
библиотека/Turkiston
kutubxonasi (www.turklib.ru).
You can download
immense quantity of bibliography concerning the history of Turkic states and
regions in Russian, English, Turkish and other local languages via RapidShare
system. There are also films, MP3 files, software and other interesting
materials on the Turkic peoples (RU,EN,UZ)
Eurasia
Institute (www.euroasianet.org). Daily
news, field reports and analyses/commentaries on Central Asia, Caucasus,
Mongolia, Iran and Afghanistan (EN, partly RU).
Central
Asia and the Caucasus (www.cacianalyst.org).
Bi-weekly on-line journal with commentaries on current issues in Central Asia
and the Caucasus (EN).
China
Eurasia Forum Quarterly (www.chinaeurasia.org) – quarterly
scholar journal covering Central Asian issues, free download
Materik.ru (http://www.materik.ru) – Аналитика
и дайджесты к
постсоветскому
пространству
Института
стран СНГ (RU.)
Информационно-аналитический центр по постсоветскому пространстве МГУ(www.ia-centr.ru). Analysis and commentaries from Central Asian and Russian perspective (RU).
The Catalogue of my library – the titles of the books are in in Czech transcription, its availability in Tbilisi, please, consult with me.