Democracy in the Central Asian Republics Joint Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives

Testimony on progress toward democracy in the Central Asian Republics -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, & Uzbekistan. The desert's mountain steppes & river valleys in this region are home to 50 million people. State borders which were imposed by Stalin artificially partition & breed resentments among various large ethnic groups, principally the Russians, Uzbeks, & Tajiks. Witnesses: Donald Pressley, Bur. for Europe & Eurasia, U.S. AID; Dr. Martha Brill Olcott, Carnegie Endow. for Internat. Peace, Prof. of Pol. Sci., Colgate Univ.; Paul Goble, Dir. of Communications, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty; Cassandra Cavanaugh, Researcher, Human Rights Watch.Bereuter, Doug is the author of 'Democracy in the Central Asian Republics Joint Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives' with ISBN 9780756715670 and ISBN 0756715679.