DISMANTLING THE COLD WAR ECONOMY
By Ann Markusen and Joel Yudken.
Basic.314 pp. $25
By Kwame Anthony Appiah.
Oxford. 225 pp. $29.95
By David F. Noble.
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By Paul Boyer.
Harvard. 468 pp. $29.95
By Sudhir Kakar.
Univ. of Chicago. 83 pp. $15.95
By Didier Eribon. Trans. by Betsy Wing.
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By Murray Feshbach and Alfred Friendly, Jr.
Basic. 376 pp. $24
James Critchlow
ven before the official
breakup of the Soviet Union
in December 1991, Central
Asians began to reclaim
their history. In Alma-Ata,
capital of Kazakhstan, for example, civic leaders changed the name of one of their major thoroughfares from Gorky Street to Jibek Joly-Kazakh for what English speakers call the "Great Silk Road," the fabled trade route that ran through Central Asia in ancient times. The renaming was but one of countless syrn- bolic gestures in a process th...