By Michael Hall
Bagila Bukharbayeva’s The Vanishing Generation: Faith and Uprising in Modern Uzbekistan follows the trajectory of Islamic dissidence and opposition under the rule of Uzbekistan’s dictatorial leader, Islam Karimov, from the latter days of the Soviet Union through Karimov’s death in 2016, with a particular focus on telling the stories of those individuals and communities who were caught up in the Karimov regime’s increasingly repressive approach to those who dared espouse dissenting views—especially views informed by their Islamic faith.
