Khalid A. H 17 Central Asia: From the Age of Empires to the Present Day / Adib Khalid ; Translated from English — Moscow : Alpina Non-fiction, 2025. — 560 pages. ISBN 978-5-00139-653-6 Central Asia is still often perceived as a remote territory on the periphery of modern history. But in reality, this region, which includes Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, as well as the Chinese province of Xinjiang, stands at the crossroads of global events. Adib Khalid presents the first comprehensive history of Central Asia from the mid-18th century to the present day. After the 1700s, the peoples of the region came under the rule of Russia and China. The American scholar — a historian of Pakistani descent, Khalid shows how foreign conquest involved the inhabitants of Central Asia into a global exchange of goods and ideas and led to closer ties with the rest of the world. His research also focuses on how the conquering empires and later the communist states of the USSR and PRC dealt with the region's ethnic heterogeneity, its inherent national and cultural differences, as well as how historical forces and trends—from colonialism and social revolutions to nationalism and state modernization policies—shaped the modern face of Central Asia. UDC 94(57)"17/20" BBK 63.3(54)5