From the Publisher: From a critically acclaimed author-a comprehensive history of the part of the world currently making headlines. The former Soviet republics of Central Asia comprise a sprawling, politically pivotal, densely populated, and richly cultured area of the world tha…
Central Asia
by Lonely Planet Publications (Firm), Noble, John, Mayhew, Bradley, Elliott, Mark, Masters, Tom
Lonely Planet Central Asia is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Sample lamb kebabs and nan bread from roadside grills, hike through the spectacular canyons of the Kyrgyz Alatau Range,…
Stalinism in Kazakhstan: History, Memory, and Representation explores Stalinist repressions in Kazakhstan through analyses of collective trauma, selective memory, and representations in contemporary art and literature.
"This book examines the development of bilateral energy relations between China and the two oil-rich countries, Kazakhstan and Russia. Challenging conventional assumptions about energy politics and China's global quest for oil, this book examines the interplay of politics and so…
"This book examines the development of bilateral energy relations between China and the two oil-rich countries, Kazakhstan and Russia. Challenging conventional assumptions about energy politics and China's global quest for oil, this book examines the interplay of politics and so…
"This book examines the development of bilateral energy relations between China and the two oil-rich countries, Kazakhstan and Russia. Challenging conventional assumptions about energy politics and China's global quest for oil, this book examines the interplay of politics and so…
This book examines the development of bilateral energy relations between China and the two oil-rich countries, Kazakhstan and Russia. Challenging conventional assumptions about energy politics and China's global quest for oil, this book examines the interplay of politics and soc…
In May of 1940, 25,000 Polish Army officers were led into the Katyn Forest in eastern Poland by their Red Army captors and executed. The author's father was one of them. In this finely wrought memoir of loss and survival, Adamczyk tells his family's story against the backdrop of…
"Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments have only recently admitted culpability. Standing in the shadow o…
"Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments have only recently admitted culpability. Standing in the shadow o…
Central Asia
by Mayhew, Bradley, Kaminski, Anna, Walker, Jenny, Lioy, Stephen
fromLonely planet
Get to the heart of Central Asia with relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Includes special features on visa and border information; the Silk Road, communit…
Get to the heart of Central Asia with relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Includes special features on visa and border information; the Silk Road, communit…