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Encounters at the edge of the Muslim world : a political memoir of Kyrgyzstan /

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 reader...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Huskey, Eugene, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Conversations with Bolot
  • From Moscow to Bishkek (or Kirgizia, Kirgizstan, Kyrgyzstan)
  • The present is history
  • Hope abounds
  • Traveling the Chu Valley : last stop, the president's office
  • The power of words
  • Kyrgyzstan goes to the polls
  • Central Asia through students' eyes
  • Falsification and conciliation
  • Borders and regions bedevil a president
  • The Tulip Revolution
  • The revolution betrayed
  • Fear stalks the land
  • Talk of kinship, gender, and Islam
  • Taking the lonely road home
  • The netherworld of the opposition
  • Bakiev falls, Washington reacts
  • Revolutionary legality vs. transitional justice
  • June 2010 : the month that remade a country
  • "We either have fair elections, or we have violence"
  • First steps on the parliamentary road
  • Without abuse, power loses its charm
  • Good-bye to Manas
  • In Osh the past is never dead
  • Preparing for a presidential afterlife
  • A stan like no other.