Uzbek Communists Embrace Nationalism Party Leaders Find That in Order to Survive, They Must Criticize Moscow for 'Colonialism' Series: Soviet Central Asia: Rift in the Empire. Third in a Series. the Previous Articles Appeared Jan. 10 and Feb. 5

Daniel Sneider, writer of The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor

IBRAHIM ISKANDEROV's office as the vice president of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences is decorated in the style of a successful Communist official. Brocade drapes hang in the picture windows. A long dark hardwood conference table stands to one side. A dozen telephones crowd alongside his broad desk.

Above the desk, an oil portrait of Vladimir Lenin fills an entire wall. The former head of the state planning agency and ex-deputy premier of Uzbekistan peppers his conversation with references to Karl Marx's "Das Kapital."

But Mr. Iskanderov uses Marxism to make an argument no Uzbek Communist would even have whispered to his closest friends a few years ago. Uzbekistan …

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Publication information: Article title: Uzbek Communists Embrace Nationalism Party Leaders Find That in Order to Survive, They Must Criticize Moscow for 'Colonialism' Series: Soviet Central Asia: Rift in the Empire. Third in a Series. the Previous Articles Appeared Jan. 10 and Feb. 5. Contributors: Daniel Sneider, writer of The Christian Science Monitor - Author. Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor. Publication date: March 28, 1991. Page number: 5. © 2009 The Christian Science Publishing Society. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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