Dark Shadows

Zusatztext This is the essential book about an increasingly important! but highly secretive! country. With a keen eye and sharp analysis! Joanna Lillis goes beyond the 'post-Soviet' cliches to explore the depths of Kazakhstan's politics! history and money Informationen zum Autor Joanna Lillis is a freelance journalist based in Kazakhstan. She writes regularly on the country for The Atlantic, The Guardian (for whom she is their de facto Central Asia correspondent), The Diplomat, EurasiaNet, Politico and The National. She previously worked for nearly four years for the BBC in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and is considered one of the best journalists working on the ground in Central Asia today. Klappentext Money is flooding into Kazakhstan. The country is home to vast gas and oil deposits, and its staggering level of international investment is increasing year by year. And yet, Kazakhstan effectively looks and feels like a Cold War state. Its president for the last 26 years, Nazarbayev, is a ruthless dictator who believes in telepathy (visitors to national monuments can place their hands on a golden handprint and send him telepathic messages) and recently constructed a 56-metre glass pyramid in which 100 Kazakhstani religious leaders will meet to discuss the future of the world.This book teases out the strange and fascinating conditions of present-day Kazakhstan - a state haunted by disappearances, buried Uranium mines, corruption, and gangsterdom at the highest levels of power. Joanna Lillis is a compelling storyteller and a shrewd social critic; her study evokes a country simultaneously lost in its complex past and poised to move into the foreground of world affairs.A compelling portrait of secretive Kazakhstan: the last cold war state Zusammenfassung 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 13 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 oligarch to sleeping villagers! from principled politicians to striking oilmen! from crusading journalists to courageous campaigners.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. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART 1 - THE MAKING OF A POTENTATE 1. Arise! Kazakhstan2. A Family Affair3. Don't Mess with the Boss4. Fault-Lines in the Feel-Good Factor5. Publish and Be Damned6. Bread and Circuses7. Back to the USSR8. Stop the Presses PART 2 - IDENTITY CRISIS 9. Kingdom of the Kazakhs10. Mother Russia11. Death to the Past12. The Gulag Archipelago13. Exile of the Innocents14. Sparks of Tension15. December of Discontent16. Lure of the Land17. Homeward Bound PART 3 - STORIES FROM THE STEPPE 18. Keeping the Faith19. Opium of the People20. Culture Wars21. The Curse of Corruption22. The Shrinking Sea23. The Wasteland24. The Ranch25. The Slumbering ...

Product details

• Authors: Joanna Lillis
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781784538613
• ISBN: 978-1-78453-861-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 223 mm x 28 mm
• Subject: Non-fiction book