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Cartlidge, Cherese. The Central Asian States. Lucent, 2001. Discussion of Kyrgystan and the other former Soviet Central Asian republics, for readers in grades 6 to 12.

Kort, Michael. Central Asian Republics. Facts on File, 2003. For readers in grade 7 and up.

Lerner Geography Department. Kyrgyzstan: Then & Now. Lerner, 1993. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

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Allworth, Edward, ed. Central Asia. 130 Years of Russian Dominance, A Historical Overview. Duke University Press, 1994. This book covers five dramatic years (1989-1993) of disintegration of the Soviet Union and of challenges facing the newborn Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan.

Anderson, John. Kyrgyzstan: Central Asia's Island of Democracy? Gordon & Breach, 1999. Introduction to the history, politics, and people of this new Central Asian state.

Curtis, Glenn E., ed. Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan: Country Studies. Library of Congress, 1997. A concise survey of the history, economy, society, and culture of each country.

Gleason, Gregory. The Central Asian States: Discovering Independence. Westview, 1997. The problems of post-Soviet Central Asia.

Olcott, Martha Brill. Central Asia's New States: Independence, Foreign Policy, and Regional Security. U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 1997. Ethnicity and politics in three breakaway Soviet republics, including Kyrgyzstan.

Rashid, Ahmed. The Resurgence of Central Asia, Islam or Nationalism? Oxford University Press, 1994. An overview of the current problems of the five Central Asian republics from a journalistic rather than an academic standpoint.

Thomas, Paul. The Central Asian States: Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan. Millbrook, 1992. For the younger reader.

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