Article: Post-Soviet Central Asia and Post-Colonial Francophone Africa: Some Associations.

An established axiom among historians states that, to put it sharply, `there are neither similarities, nor parallels in history'. Ergo: no comparisons between different phenomena are legitimate, since any similarities can only be general, vague and superficial. Nevertheless, a comparison between historical situations, as long as it is not simplistic and mechanical and if taken cum grano salis, might be an additional useful tool for a better grasp of a deeper insight into historical realities.

This article attempts to add such a tool to understanding the post-Soviet Central Asian states by comparing their relationship with the Russian Federation to that of the ...

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