Journey into Kazakhstan : the true face of the Nazarbayev regime / Alexandra George.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

George, Alexandra, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kazakhstan--Politics and government--1991-.

Kazakhstan.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xviii, 269 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2001]

Contents:

Chapter 1 The New Political and Business Elite: From Party Nomenklatura to Clan Rule 25

Chapter 2 Myth and Reality: Behind the Curtain of Democracy 43

Chapter 3 One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: How the Independent Mass Media was Abolished 63

Chapter 4 Privatization in the Framework of the Post-Soviet State: The Case of the Shymkent Phosphorous Giant 79

Chapter 5 Industrial Dislocation, Worker Desolation 97

Chapter 6 The Ethnic Card: "Kazhakization" in a Multinational Mosaic 123

Chapter 7 The Collapse of Agriculture 157

Chapter 8 Oil or Caviar: Ecology in the North Caspian Sea 167

Chapter 9 The Aral Sea: A Tragedy of Dictates Begotten and Mandates Forgotten 179

Chapter 10 The Nuclear Polygon of Semipalatinsk: "The Angel of Death" 191

Chapter 11 Murat Telibekov's Looking Glass: "Wafts of Wind from the Street" 219

Conclusion: A Myopic Vision 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index.

ISBN:

0761819649

OCLC:

45715899