Restless valley revolution, murder, and intrigue in the heart of Central Asia
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. A gripping, firsthand account of Central Asia's unfolding history from 2005...
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New Haven, CN
Yale University Press
[2013]
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The Tulip Revolution -- On the Heroin Highway -- Anatomy of a Massacre -- The Dark Years in Kyrgyzstan -- The Land of Perpetual Revolution -- The Financier Vanishes, and Other Riddles -- Restless Valley -- Our Son of a Bitch? -- Epilogue: Family Connections | |
| 520 | |a 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. A gripping, firsthand account of Central Asia's unfolding history from 2005 to the present. Shishkin focuses mainly on Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Both nations have struggled with the enormous challenges of post-Soviet independent statehood; both have developed into a key smuggling hub for Afghanistan's booming heroin trade | ||
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