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Eugene Huskey on the Soviet Legacy in Central Asia

IN 1979, EUGENE Huskey was a graduate student at the London School of Economics when he landed the opportunity to spend a year at Moscow State University studying the Soviet legal system. By the time he departed, the Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan and the United States had announced a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics.

In the late ’80s, Huskey was invited by the renowned

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