Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart

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

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, firsthand account of Central Asiaâ€™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 Afghanistanâ€™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 Americaâ€™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 Afghanistanâ€™s booming heroin trade. Through the eyes of local participantsâ€”the powerful and the powerlessâ€”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 Stalinâ€™s legacy of ethnic gerrymandering incites conflict even now.

Country	USA
Author	Philip Shishkin
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780300185980
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Yale University Press
Manufacturer	Yale University Press
NumberOfPages	329
PublicationDate	2013-05-21
Publisher	Yale University Press
ReleaseDate	2013-04-24
Studio	Yale University Press

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

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