Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 305 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2019 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9781788318488
Content:
PART 1 - THE MAKING OF A POTENTATE -- 1. Arise, Kazakhstan -- 2. A Family Affair -- 3. Don't Mess with the Boss -- 4. Fault-Lines in the Feel-Good Factor -- 5. Publish and Be Damned -- 6. Bread and Circuses -- 7. Back to the USSR -- 8. Stop the Presses -- PART 2 - IDENTITY CRISIS -- 9. Kingdom of the Kazakhs -- 10. Mother Russia -- 11. Death to the Past -- 12. The Gulag Archipelago -- 13. Exile of the Innocents -- 14. Sparks of Tension -- 15. December of Discontent -- 16. Lure of the Land -- 17. Homeward Bound -- PART 3 - STORIES FROM THE STEPPE -- 18. Keeping the Faith -- 19. Opium of the People -- 20. Culture Wars -- 21. The Curse of Corruption -- 22. The Shrinking Sea -- 23. The Wasteland -- 24. The Ranch -- 25. The Slumbering Steppe -- 26. The Collective Farm -- Bibliography.
Content:
"Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West. Strategically located in the heart of Central Asia, sandwiched between Vladimir Putin's Russia, its former colonial ruler, and Xi Jinping's China, this vast oil-rich state is carving out its place in the world as it contends with its own complex past and present. Journalist Joanna Lillis paints a vibrant picture of this emerging nation through vivid reportage based on 13 years of on-the-ground coverage, and travels across the length and breadth of this enigmatic country that lies along the ancient Silk Road and at the geopolitical and cultural crossroads where East meets West. Featuring tales of murder and abduction, intrigue and betrayal, extortion and corruption, this book explores how a president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, transformed himself into a potentate and the economically-struggling state he inherited at the fall of the USSR into a swaggering 21st-century monocracy. A colourful cast of characters brings the politics to life: from strutting oligarch to sleeping villagers, from principled politicians to striking oilmen, from crusading journalists to courageous campaigners. Traversing dust-blown deserts and majestic mountains, taking in glitzy cities and dystopian landscapes, Dark Shadows conjures up Kazakhstan as a living, breathing place, full of extraordinary people living extraordinary lives."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781784538613
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786734518
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781788318488
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