Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia

Shishkin, Philip

ISBN 10: 0300184360 / ISBN 13: 9780300184365

Edité par Yale University Press, 2013

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Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

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• Titre: Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia
• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0300184360
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780300184365
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Good

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Synopsis

It sounds like the stuff of a fiction thriller: 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...or heroes...or possibly both. Yet this book is not a work of fiction. It is instead a gripping, first-hand account of Central Asia's unfolding history from 2005 to the present. Philip Shishkin, a prize-winning journalist with extensive on-the-ground experience in the tumultuous region above Afghanistan's northern border, focuses mainly on Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Both nations have struggled with the enormous challenges of post-Soviet independent statehood; both became entangled in America's Afghan campaign when U.S. military bases were established within their borders. At the same time, the region was developing into 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 U.S. and Russia have brought mixed blessings, and how Stalin's legacy of ethnic gerrymandering incites conflict even now.

À propos de l?auteur

Philip Shishkin was a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal for a decade and ran the newspaper's Baghdad bureau during the height of Iraq's sectarian war. He has reported from Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, among other locations. He is a fellow at the Asia Society focusing on Central Asia.