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This chapter introduces readers to the background and purpose the book. It also presents an overview of the organization and major arguments of the book. Moreover, this chapter lays out the method of critical discourse analysis (CDA) that is adopted by this book for better understanding of how neoliberal ideas have impacted the post-Soviet neoliberal capitalist transitions of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

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Yilamu, W. (2018). Introduction. In: Neoliberalism and Post-Soviet Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69221-0_1

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