To assume that the countries of Central Asia-which share a Soviet past and a more distant past shaped by nomadic khans, but no democratic past-aspire to Western-style democratic ideals is to fundamentally misunderstand them, argues David Rieff. Their cultural and political past must be allowed to bear on their futureby David Rieff ONE of the most peculiar aspects of the […]
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