亚历山大·莫里森的《俄国在撒马尔罕的统治，1868～1910》是英美学界近年来最新的关于俄属中亚的历史学研究作品。作者以撒马尔罕地区为例，通过研究突厥斯坦总督区当局在基层宗教管理、土地制度、税收、水利、司法方面的政策目标和实践，认为沙俄在此地的统治是失败的。作者强调，作为沙皇俄国的边疆政府，突厥斯坦当局在财力和人力上难以克服的困难，是其失败的直接原因；更深层次的原因则是当局军政官员与本地穆斯林之间文化上的隔阂和政治上的疑惧。
Alexander Morrison’s Russian Rule in Samarkand，1868-1910 is a recent historical study of the Russian Empire in Central Asia. Through the study of Samarkand region，governed by the Turkestan Governor-Generalship，the author delves into various sources to demonstrate the Governor-Generalship’s policy goals and implementation in various aspects such as religion，land ownership，taxation，irrigation and judicial institutions. The author considers that the Russian rule in Turkestan was a failure. On the one hand，a frontier government of the Tsarist Empire，the Turkestan Governor-Generalship never had enough financial and human resources to penetrate the societies below the district level（uezd）. On the other hand，such a failure was fundamentally due to the cultural barrier and political mistrust between the military bureaucrats and the local Muslims.
