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This dissertation studies the six "Islamic" republics of the Soviet Union--Azerbaidzhan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan--and their relationship to statistical Soviet norms. The dissertation focuses on different eras of Soviet history: from the l…

Until very recently, most scholars had generally overlooked the condition of women in the former Soviet Islamic republics. The breakup of the Soviet empire however for the first time opened up windows into the cultural and social lives of the Moslem population. In the scholastic…