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Cartlidge, Cherese. The Central Asian States. Lucent, 2001. Discussion of Kazakhstan 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.

Pang Guek Cheng. Kazakhstan. Marshall Cavendish, 2001. For readers in grades 6 to 9.

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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.

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. The Kazakhs. Hoover Institution Press, 1995. A history of this ethnic group from the mid-15th century to the present.

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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