Edward A. Allworth

Edward A. Allworth ( born December 1, 1920) is an American historian. He is professor emeritus of Turco- Soviet Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Central Asia at Columbia University.

During the Second World War Allworth was active for the U.S. Army in Normandy. His numerous scientific publications deal primarily with the history and culture of Turkic peoples in the Soviet Union.

Works (selection)

  • Uzbek literary politics, Mouton & Co., 1964
  • The nationality question in Soviet Central Asia ( ed.), Praeger Publishers, 1973
  • The modern Uzbeks from the fourteenth century to the present: a cultural history, Hoover Press, 1990
  • Central Asia, 130 years of Russian dominance: a historical overview, Duke University Press, 1994
  • Muslim communities reemerge: Historical Perspectives on Nationality, Politics, and Opposition in the Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia ( Co-Hg. ), Duke University Press, 1994
  • The Tatars of Crimea: Return to the Homeland, Duke University Press, 1997
  • The Preoccupations of Abdalrauf Fitrat, Bukharan nonconformist, The Arab. Book, 2000
  • Evading Reality. The Devices of ʿ Abdalrauf Fitrat, modern Central Asian reformist, Brill, 2002
  • Americans
  • Historian
  • Turkologist
  • Born in 1920
  • Man
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