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Author Shishkin, Philip, 1977- author.

Title Restless valley : revolution, murder, and intrigue in the heart of Central Asia / Philip Shishkin
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 316 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents The Tulip Revolution -- On the Heroin Highway -- Anatomy of a Massacre -- The Dark Years in Kyrgyzstan -- The Land of Perpetual Revolution -- The Financier Vanishes, and Other Riddles -- Restless Valley -- Our Son of a Bitch? -- Epilogue: Family Connections
Summary This award-winning foreign correspondent's vivid account of Central Asia's recent history "reads like a novel but is the stuff of hard-won journalism" (Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan). Here are the stories of two revolutions, a massacre of unarmed civilians, a civil war, a drug-smuggling highway, brazen corruption schemes, contract hits, and larger-than-life characters who may be villains, heroes, or possibly both. Restless Valley is a gripping, contemporary chronicle of Central Asia from a veteran journalist with extensive experience in the region. Both Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have struggled with the challenges of post-Soviet, independent statehood, and both became entangled in America's Afghan campaign when the United States built military bases within their borders. Meanwhile, the region was becoming a key smuggling hub for Afghanistan's booming heroin trade. Through the eyes of local participants-the powerful and the powerless-Shishkin reconstructs how Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have ricocheted between extreme repression and democratic strivings; how alliances with the United States and Russia have brought mixed blessings; and how Stalin's legacy of ethnic gerrymandering continues to incite conflict today. "The weird, the strange, the corrupt, and the grand are all evident ... [Shishkin] relentlessly pursues and then tells the stories of the most corrupt and powerful and also the most sincere and admirable characters who inhabit these mountains."--Ahmed Rashid, The New York Review of Books
Notes "Release date: June 18, 2019."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Revolutions -- Kyrgyzstan -- History -- 21st century
Revolutions -- Uzbekistan -- History -- 21st century
Violence -- Kyrgyzstan -- History -- 21st century
Violence -- Uzbekistan -- History -- 21st century
Intrigue -- Political aspects -- Kyrgyzstan -- History -- 21st century
Intrigue -- Political aspects -- Uzbekistan -- History -- 21st century
HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Politics and government
Revolutions
Violence
Revoluties.
Politiek geweld.
SUBJECT Kyrgyzstan -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96010474
Uzbekistan -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95010027
Kyrgyzstan -- History -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006299
Uzbekistan -- History -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004555
Subject Kyrgyzstan
Uzbekistan
Oezbekistan.
Kirgiziƫ.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300185980
0300185987