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This is a 1990 JPRS report distributed by the Central Intelligence Agency. It translates the English summaries of major articles from the Soviet journal Narody Azii i Afriki, No 4, July to August 1989. The topics include small business policy in Asia, non-capitalist development in Central Asia, the Truman Doctrine and Turkey, pre-Islamic Turkic religions and al-Mawardi. One article, by A.D. Dikaryov, looks at how Chinese UFO enthusiasts search ancient Chinese sources for historical evidence of UFOs.
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Document 4 of 8 Page 6 analysis, can be traced back to Augustus and Jewish promise of Messiah, and the model by Schlegel-- to the Indo-European mythologem of four centuries (golden, silver, copper and iron). These models are not mutually excluding. Total historical movement has a complex inner structure including a number of movements, each of them being evident on a certain scale of articulation of historical time and space. The article distinguishes five scales of the time and the same number of scales for the cultural space. On the super-large scale of Indian mythology, the history in general is an illusion and only eternity is real. On a global large scale accumulated changes (growth of productive forces, of population, differentiation of society and intellect; growing alienation, ecological tension etc.) are first and foremost. A middle global scale discerns wave movements, the '' eternal return,'' the revival of archaic features in the Middle Ages and of the classics in the modern history. In Chinese historiography this is expressed by an alternation of dynasties 'in and yan. On a middle local scale the most important are cycles of rise and decline of various cultures. These movements, while they are different enough, can be considered as being rational, easily modelled. They are opposed to explosive movements directed by a charismatic leader (M. Weber) or a group of ''passionaries'' (L.N. Gumilyov). Here only anthropomorphous scale is possible. There are no reasons to explain Mongolian conquests besides those interlaced in Gengis Khan's personality. It is impossible to foresee what new ''passionary'' (Hitler, Khomeini) will frustrate all plans of sober-minded people. However, the course of time smoothes away traces of explosions and all the logic of history is restored to its rights. ## 33. ROUND TABLE ## 34. FUTURE OF ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE EAST 35. Participants: N.A. IVANOV, M.F. VIDYASOVA, L.S. VASILIEV, YU.G. ALEKSANDROV, A.D. DIKARYOV, V.A. YASHKIN, A.V. AKIMOV 36. This Round Table concerns problems of development of the economic history of the East in the USSR. The article by A.M. Petrov 'New Tasks of Ancient Science and Some Materials for Study of Economic History of the East'' (1989, No 2) gave rise to the present discussion. The participants put the question: what is the reason of such a lag in the field (history of economy) which was traditionally considered by the Marxist science as a priority? A number of solutions is suggested. In the authors' opinion, use of quantitative methods would allow to reject some dogmas which need to be reviewed, e.g. the dogma of the ''robbery'' of the East as a source of primary capitalist accumulation. The economic backwardness of the East was, first of all, a result of the non-ability of etatist economy to ensure the extended reproduction, and not that of the ''colonial
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.