Encounters At the Edge of the Muslim World - A Political Memoir of Kyrgyzstan

This deeply informed book provides the only sustained political history of independent Kyrgyzstan, explaining events in the context of its society and the broader international order. Eugene Huskey draws on his unique access to political figures to carefully weave the changes in Kyrgyzstan into his own firsthand account of life in the country.

List of contents

List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Note on Usage
1 Conversations with Bolot
2 From Moscow to Bishkek (or Kirgizia, Kirgizstan, Kyrgyzstan)
3 The Present Is History
4 Hope Abounds
5 Traveling the Chu Valley: Last Stop, the President's Office
6 The Power of Words
7 Kyrgyzstan Goes to the Polls
8 Central Asia through Students' Eye
9 Falsification and Conciliation
10 Borders and Regions Bedevil a President
11 The Tulip Revolution
12 The Revolution Betrayed
13 Fear Stalks the Land
14 Talk of Kinship, Gender, and Islam
15 Taking the Lonely Road Home
16 The Netherworld of the Opposition
17 Bakiev Falls, Washington Reacts
18 Revolutionary Legality versus Transitional Justice
19 June 2010: The Month That Remade a Country
20 "We Either Have Fair Elections, or We Have Violence"
21 First Steps on the Parliamentary Road
22 Without Abuse, Power Loses Its Charm
23 Goodbye to Manas
24 In Osh the Past Is Never Dead
25 Preparing for a Presidential Afterlife
26 A Stan Like No Other
Notes
Selected Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Eugene Huskey

Summary

This deeply informed book provides the only sustained political history of independent Kyrgyzstan, explaining events in the context of its society and the broader international order. Eugene Huskey draws on his unique access to political figures to carefully weave the changes in Kyrgyzstan into his own firsthand account of life in the country.

Product details

• Authors: Eugene Huskey
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781538117088
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-1708-8
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Russia, European History, HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, USSR, Soviet Union, History of other geographical groupings and regions, Kyrgyzstan (Kirghizstan, Kirghizia), HISTORY / Russia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet