Book Review: Elizabeth E. Bacon, Central Asians Under Russian Rule: A Study in Culture Change, Cornell University Press: Ithaca and London, (1980).
Elizabeth Bacon’s book Central Asians Under Russian Rule: A Study in Culture Change (1966, 1980) is a historical and anthropological study of cultural change in Central Asia from Russia’s nineteenth-century conquest of the territory to 1980. The book is not based on extensive anthropological fieldwork or the use of archival sources (from Moscow). Instead, the author creatively and thoughtfully uses Western and Soviet secondary sources. The study is both a general reader and an academic work. It is accessible and comprehensive.
Sevket Hylton Akyildiz 