Memories of Central Asia
Memories of Central Asiais a series published by Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag Wiesbaden and edited by Ingeborg Baldauf.
It presents the results of research projects which have used the method of oral history. By this series Central Asia defines a region which includes the five former Soviet Central Asian Republics, Afghanistan, Mongolia and Tibet. The subjects are as multi-faceted as the recent history of the region.
List of available titles:
Rzehak, Lutz (ed.): Die Taliban im Land der Mittagssonne.
Geschichten aus der afghanischen Provinz. Erinnerungen und Notizen von Abdurrahman Pahwal.
2004. 144 pages, 4 ill., broch., ISBN 3-89500-416-2, EUR 16,90
This book contains the German translation of a text written in Dari by the late Abdurrahman Pahwal Balochi from Nimruz/Afghanistan, with notes and an introduction. The text is the memories of Abdurrahman from the time of the taliban regime.
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Loy, Thomas : Jaghnob 1970. Erinnerungen an eine Zwangsumsiedlung in der Tadschikischen SSR.
2005. 136 pages, 12 ill., broch., ISBN 3-89500-424-3, EUR 16,90
This book tells the story of the forced migration of the Yagnobs, who used to live in the Yagnob valley in Tadjikistan and were translocated to the cotton producing sorkozes of the newly district Zarafobod in nothern Tajikistan in 1970.
Extract (only available in German)
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Baldauf, Ingeborg (ed.): Die ohne Leichentuch Begrabenen.
Political chace at the Soviet periphery, told and reminded by the Uzbek poet Shukrullo.
2005. 240 pages, broch., ISBN 3-89500-425-1
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last update : 05 December 2011