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Restless Valley - Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia (Paperback)
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Restless Valley - Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia (Paperback)
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A reporter's vivid account of Central Asia's wild recent
history-violent in the extreme and rife with characters both heroic
and corrup 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 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 United
States and Russia have brought mixed blessings, and how Stalin's
legacy of ethnic gerrymandering incites conflict even now.
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