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 |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Revolutions -- Kyrgyzstan -- History -- 21st century
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Revolutions -- Uzbekistan -- History -- 21st century
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Violence -- Kyrgyzstan -- History -- 21st century
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Violence -- Uzbekistan -- History -- 21st century
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Intrigue -- Political aspects -- Kyrgyzstan -- History -- 21st century
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Intrigue -- Political aspects -- Uzbekistan -- History -- 21st century
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
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Politics and government
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Revolutions
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Violence
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Revoluties.
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Politiek geweld.
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SUBJECT |
Kyrgyzstan -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96010474
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Uzbekistan -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95010027
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Kyrgyzstan -- History -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006299
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Uzbekistan -- History -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004555
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Kyrgyzstan
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Uzbekistan
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Oezbekistan.
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Kirgiziƫ.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780300185980 |
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0300185987 |
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