''Central Asian Review'' was a journal of

Central Asian studies Central Asian studies is the discipline of studying the culture, history, and languages of the region of Central Asia. The roots of Central Asian studies as a social science discipline goes to 19th century Anglo-Russian Great Game. During the 19th ...

published from 1953 to 1968. A 1954 review in

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deemed that its work on Soviet Central Asia "performs an invaluable service and does it well," while more recent scholarship notes that it "gave reports on a wide variety of Central Asian topics gleaned from the Soviet press with often favourable comment." The journal's full title was ''Central Asian Review: A Quarterly Review of Current Developments in Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan'' and was published quarterly by the Central Asian Research Centre in association with

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. Founder and director of the center, Geoffrey Wheeler was the editor-in-chief and frequent contributor to the journal. It was included in the

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. ''Central Asian Review'' was one of the primary venues for scholarly articles concerning

Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian language, Pers ...

and was the main English language source for digests of Soviet press coverage of Central Asia. The journal was notable because it was one of the few periodicals of Central Asian Studies published during a time when research in the field was difficult, due to Soviet censorship and travel restrictions for researchers. In 1968 Wheeler left the Central Asian Research Center and the following year "Central Asian Review" was incorporated into the journal ''Mizan'', published by the center from 1965 to 1971.Will Myer. Islam and Colonialism: Western Perspective on Soviet Asia. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002. p. 103-4. ISBN 0-7007-1765-X.

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Central Asian Review available on Hathitrust Digital Library
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