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Encounters at the Edge of the Muslim World - A Political Memoir of Kyrgyzstan (Paperback)
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Encounters at the Edge of the Muslim World - A Political Memoir of Kyrgyzstan (Paperback)
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This unique work provides the only sustained political history of
independent Kyrgyzstan, explaining events in the context of its
society and the broader international order. Drawing on three
decades of personal encounters with ordinary citizens and leading
public figures, Eugene Huskey takes readers on a journey through
the unlikely birth and tumultuous development of Central Asia's
most open society. Starting with the heady, romantic first days of
independence and moving through the popular uprisings and
inter-ethnic violence of recent years, he chronicles the struggles
of a new state to establish a democratic order and to find its
place in the international community, while caught between China,
the Middle East, and the Russian world. At the center are the very
human stories of leaders and citizens trying to navigate the
transition from communism, where identities, property, and the
rules of the political game were constantly in dispute. With
citizens of independent Kyrgyzstan stripped of their Soviet
identity, the book illustrates how alternative loyalties based on
kinship, geography, statehood, and religion competed for prominence
in ways that often complicated the new country's political, social,
and economic development.
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