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Author Aitken, Jonathan

Title Nazarbayev and the Making of Kazakhstan
Published London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages)
Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1: Ancestry and Childhood; 2: Student and Steelworker; 3: Young Communist, Young Husband, Young Rebel; 4: Climbing the Party Ladder; 5: A Frustrated Prime Minister 1984â#x80;#x93;1986; 6: December 1986 and its Consequences; 7: The Coup and the Breakup; 8: The Birth Pains of Independence; 9: To Nuclear or Not to Nuclear; 10: New Currency â#x80;#x93; New Constitution â#x80;#x93; New Economy; 11: Russia, the Caspian and China; 12: Entering the 21st Century Part I â#x80;#x93; The Domestic President; 13: Entering the 21st Century Part II â#x80;#x93; The International President
14: A Capital VisionEpilogue; Source Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Summary Kazakhstan is colossal in size, complicated in its history, colourful in its culture and is a nation state that most outsiders know little of. Much of the existing narrative revolves around the country's first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. But his life can only be understood in the context of the land in which he was born, raised and became a leader. For centuries the tribes of Kazakhstan had been plundered and conquered by foreign invaders. The most ruthless of these were the 20th century leaders of the Soviet Union, but after its collapse it was Nazarbayev who emerged as the new President
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Nazarbaev, Nursultan
SUBJECT Nazarbaev, Nursultan fast
Subject Presidents -- Kazakhstan -- Biography
Presidents
SUBJECT Kazakhstan -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85071822
Subject Kazakhstan
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Aitken
ISBN 9781441158628
1441158626
1441195629
9781441195623
1282875191
9781282875197
9786612875199
6612875194