Kazakhstan: Surprises and Stereotypes After 20 Years of Independence

by Jonathan Aitken

Jonathan Aitken has written an insightful and illuminating portrait of 21st Century Kazakhstan as it approaches its 20th Anniversary of independence from the former Soviet Union. Surprises abound in Aitken's lively pages as he captures the creative tensions between Old and New Kazakhstan. Thanks to his unique access, the author has probed the darkest corners of the fading Soviet era, reporting from inside the prisons, the KGB and the Special Prosecutor's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441116540
• ISBN13: 9781441116543
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"