Acknowledgements

This special issue of Central Asian Survey is based on the papers delivered at an international workshop on the Russian conquest of Central Asia held in the Department of History of the University of Liverpool, 23 November 2012. The workshop was made possible by a research grant from the British Academy, and I thank that body for continuing to provide funding of a type and scale appropriate to research in the humanities. I also thank Ulfatbek Abdurasulov, Paolo Sartori and Thomas Welsford for the valuable contributions they made at the original workshop. I thank Ian Campbell for translating Svetlana Gorshenina's paper, Gabriel McGuire for the reference to Dulat Babataiuli's poetry, the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions, and Deniz Kandiyoti and Raphael Jacquet for agreeing to a special issue on the Russian conquest.