Joanna Lillis: Dark Shadows | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780755626694 | Dark Shadows | Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan | Joanna Lillis

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Beschreibung

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 17 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 oligarchs to sleeping villagers, from principled politicians to striking oilmen, from crusading journalists to courageous campaigners. This new edition features two additional chapters covering the aftermath of Nazarbayev's fall from power in 2019; the Chinese government's repressions against the Kazakhs of Xinjiang as part of its crackdown on Muslim minorities; and an Afterword reflecting on the tumultuous events of January 2022 in Almaty.

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.

Über den Autor

Joanna Lillis

Zusammenfassung

Features two new additional chapters covering events since 2019, including the aftermath of Nazarbayev's fall from power, the Chinese government's crackdown on Muslim minorities, and an Afterword reflecting on the tumultuous events of January 2022 in Almaty.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Map of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan historical timeline Note on transliteration and names
Introduction
I. 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 Trials and Tribulations
7 Back to the USSR
8 Stop the Presses
9 Bread and Circuses
10 End of an Era
II. Identity Crisis 11 Kingdom of the Kazakhs
12 Mother Russia
13 Death to the Past
14 The Gulag Archipelago
15 Exile of the Innocents
16 Sparks of Tension
17 December of Discontent
18 Lure of the Land
19 Homeward Bound
20 Behind the Red Wall
III. Stories from the Steppe 21 Keeping the Faith
22 Opium of the People
23 Culture Wars
24 The Curse of Corruption
25 The Shrinking Sea
26 The Wasteland
27 The Ranch
28 The Slumbering Steppe
29 The Collective Farm
Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780755626694
ISBN-10:	0755626699
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	500841
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Lillis, Joanna
Auflage:	2. Auflage
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Academic
Maße:	214 x 136 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Joanna Lillis
Erscheinungsdatum:	21.04.2022
Gewicht:	0,476 kg

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