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Sovietistan

Autor: Erika Fatland

Número de Páginas: 495

"A mesmerising trip across Central Asia . . . A fascinating travelogue" Financial Times SHORTLISTED FOR EDWARD STANFORD/LONELY PLANET DEBUT TRAVEL WRITER OF THE YEAR 2020 Erika Fatland takes the reader on a journey that is unknown to even the most seasoned globetrotter. The five former Soviet Republics' Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan all became independent when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. How have these countries developed since then? In the Kyrgyzstani villages Erika Fatland meets victims of the widely known tradition of bride snatching; she visits the huge and desolate Polygon in Kazakhstan where the Soviet Union tested explosions of nuclear bombs; she meets Chinese shrimp gatherers on the banks of the dried out Aral Sea and she witnesses the fall of a dictator. She travels incognito through Turkmenistan, a country that is closed to journalists. She meets exhausted human rights activists in Kazakhstan, survivors from the massacre in Osh in 2010, German Menonites that found paradise on the Kyrgyzstani plains 200 years ago. During her travels, she observes how ancient customs clash with gas production and she witnesses the underlying...

Sovietistan

Autor: Erika Fatland

Número de Páginas: 493

La frontière

Autor: Erika Fatland

Número de Páginas: 476

Sans jamais y mettre le bout du pied, la voyageuse nous raconte la Russie, l'histoire et la diversité russe à travers ses rencontres avec les populations et les étendues qui bornent le plus grand pays du monde. Erika Fatland sillonne 14 États et plus de 20 000 kilomètres en longeant LA frontière : la plus longue au monde, celle de la Russie avec l'ensemble de ses voisins. Ambitieux, ludique, instructif.

Sovietistan

Autor: Erika Fatland

Número de Páginas: 0

An unforgettable journey through Central Asia, one of the most mysterious and history-laden regions of the world. Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in 1991. But though they are new to modern statehood, this is a region rich in ancient history, culture, and landscapes unlike anywhere else in the world. Traveling alone, Erika Fatland is a true adventurer in every sense. In Sovietistan, she takes the reader on a compassionate and insightful journey to explore how their Soviet heritage has influenced these countries, with governments experimenting with both democracy and dictatorships. In Kyrgyzstani villages, she meets victims of the tradition of bride snatching; she visits the huge and desolate Polygon in Kazakhstan where the Soviet Union tested explosions of nuclear bombs; she meets shrimp gatherers on the banks of the dried out Aral Sea; she witnesses the fall of a dictator. She travels incognito through Turkmenistan, a country that is closed to journalists. She meets exhausted human rights activists in Kazakhstan, survivors from the massacre in Osh in 2010, and German Mennonites that found paradise on the Kyrgyzstani...

Sovietistan

Autor: Erika Fatland

Número de Páginas: 484

An unforgettable journey through Central Asia, one of the most mysterious and history-laden regions of the world. Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in 1991. But though they are new to modern statehood, this is a region rich in ancient history, culture, and landscapes unlike anywhere else in the world. Traveling alone, Erika Fatland is a true adventurer in every sense. In Sovietistan, she takes the reader on a compassionate and insightful journey to explore how their Soviet heritage has influenced these countries, with governments experimenting with both democracy and dictatorships. In Kyrgyzstani villages, she meets victims of the tradition of bride snatching; she visits the huge and desolate Polygon in Kazakhstan where the Soviet Union tested explosions of nuclear bombs; she meets shrimp gatherers on the banks of the dried out Aral Sea; she witnesses the fall of a dictator. She travels incognito through Turkmenistan, a country that is closed to journalists. She meets exhausted human rights activists in Kazakhstan, survivors from the massacre in Osh in 2010, and German Mennonites that found paradise on the Kyrgyzstani...

La dura vita del dittatore

Autor: Simone Guida

Número de Páginas: 189

Cos'è una dittatura e perché si verifica in una nazione? E poi la psicopatologia del tiranno: cosa accomuna i vari dittatori? Perché alcune persone sembrano nate per diventarlo? E ancora, la geografia delle dittature: quali Paesi del mondo oggi sono dittature? Perché alcune nazioni diventano una dittatura e altre no? Questo libro dal taglio ironico (ma in realtà assolutamente "serio" se guardato in controluce) offre al lettore una sorta di "vocabolario del dittatore", rispondendo alle principali domande e ponendo le basi per farsene molte altre, grazie alla guida e alla competenza dell'autore. Quindi: come vive un cittadino in uno Stato dittatoriale? Una volta raggiunto il potere quali sono le tecniche per mantenerlo? E per il dittatore di turno va sempre tutto bene, oppure si presentano spesso i "rischi del dittatore" (colpi di stato, assassinii e quant'altro). Quali sono stati i casi più eclatanti di rovesciamento di una dittatura? In chiusura di libro alcune figure di dittatori, spesso sconosciute ai più, e le loro imprese più folli, spesso in bilico fra il lusso sfrenato e strampalate monomanie. E non stupirà trovare, durante la lettura dei profili di tanti...

Profession Dictateur

Autor: Emmanuelle Raimondi

Número de Páginas: 473

De Kim Jong-un à Bachar el-Assad, en passant par Poutine, Mugabe, Duterte ou encore Kadyrov : un panorama des 49 dictateurs en exercice , doublé d'une réflexion sur les habits neufs dont s'affublent les tyrans modernes pour entretenir le doute sur leur nature. Leur délirante avidité de pouvoir Tyrans mégalos, vieillards inamovibles, bourreurs d'urnes et de crânes, faux démocrates et vrais satrapes... Les dictateurs d'aujourd'hui, s'ils ne sont pas moins cruels que ceux d'hier, ont appris à faire mentir l'image caricaturale du despote assoiffé de pouvoir et de sang.Qu'ils soient des héritiers (tels Kim Jong-un, Bachar el-Assad, Raúl Castro), tirant leur légitimité d'une famille qui s'est illustrée, pour le pire, dans l'histoire de leur pays, des nostalgiques du modèle soviétique (Poutine ou Loukachenko) et de ses méthodes, ou encore des autocrates africains (Afewerki, Obiang Nguema, Omar el-Béchir...) pilleurs des ressources de leur peuple, tous ont compris qu'aujourd'hui, pour durer, il faut changer de méthode. Savoir jouer avec les règles démocratiques et être un communiquant hors pair. Réseaux sociaux, fake news... La manipulation de l'opinion 2.0 est...

Kazakhstan, jeune nation entre Chine, Russie et Europe

Autor: Lise Barcellini

Número de Páginas: 121

Il est bien compliqué de se faire un nom avec des voisins au poids politique et économique aussi importants que l'Europe, la Chine et la Russie ! Rendez-vous au Kazakhstan pour prendre le pouls d'une jeune nation enclavée en quête d'une véritable place sur l'échiquier géopolitique. Que connaît-on du Kazakhstan, le plus occidental des pays d'Asie centrale ? Rien ou presque. Cette immense steppe, mosaïque ethnique aux fortes traditions turco-musulmanes, au lourd héritage soviétique (goulag, essais nucléaires), est un Etat laïc né en 1991 de la dislocation de l'URSS. Grâce à ses gigantesques ressources naturelles et minières, à sa situation géostratégique, au dynamisme de ses plus de 120 ethnies, le Kazakhstan s'affirme aujourd'hui comme un pivot essentiel entre la Chine, la Russie et l'Europe. Découverte d'une nation qui s'invente, à travers les témoignages de son peuple.

The Border - A Journey Around Russia

Autor: Erika Fatland

Número de Páginas: 709

A journey along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way. "Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the Nordics' most exciting new travel writers" National Geographic **SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORDS DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** "A hauntingly lyrical meditation to the contingencies of history" Wall Street Journal "[An] impressive mix of history, reportage and travel memoir" Washington Post The Border is a book about Russia and Russian history without its author ever entering Russia itself; a book about being the neighbour of that mighty, expanding empire throughout history. It is a chronicle of the colourful, exciting, tragic and often unbelievable histories of these bordering nations, their cultures, their people, their landscapes. Through her last three documentary books - one about terrorism in Beslan, one about the 2011 terror attacks in Norway and one about post-Soviet Central Asia - social anthropologist Erika Fatland has established herself as a sharp observer and an outstanding interviewer at the forefront of Nordic ...

Sciencepreneurship

Autor: Piero Formica

Número de Páginas: 145

Sciencepreneurship explores the symbiotic relationship between science, entrepreneurship and sustainable economic growth. It argues that like artists, writers and educators, scientists and entrepreneurs foster social progress and provide opportunities to advance sustainable and environmentally friendly economic development.

Tajikistan

Autor: Debbie Nevins

Número de Páginas: 146

Dominated by mountains, the rugged nation of Tajikistan has a striking landscape that readers are able to examine in beautiful detail in the pages of this informative guide. Stunning photographs and maps accompany the narrative and sidebars that highlight Tajikistan's government, history, geography, and culture. As readers discover what life is like in Tajikistan, they're introduced to new languages and new cuisines, with fun recipes adding an engaging, hands-on component to this multicultural learning experience.

Ukraine Over the Edge

Autor: Gordon M. Hahn

Número de Páginas: 368

The Ukrainian crisis that dominated headlines in fall 2013 was decades in the making. Two great schisms shaped events: one within Ukraine, its western and southeastern parts divided along cultural and political lines; the other was driven by geopolitical factors. Competition between Russia and the West exacerbated Ukraine's divisions. This study focuses on the historical background and complex causality of the crisis, from the rise of mass demonstrations on Kiev's Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) to the making of the post-revolt regime. In the context of a "new cold war," the author sheds light on the role of radical Ukrainian nationalists and neofascists in the February 2014 snipers' massacre, the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych, and Russia's seizure of Crimea and involvement in the civil war in the eastern region of Donbass.

Anti-Atlas

Autor: Tim Beasley-murray , Wendy Bracewell , Michał Murawski

Número de Páginas: 376

The invasion of Ukraine is the latest in a series of upheavals that have made eastern Europe a telling point from which to consider the place of area studies in the construction of knowledge about the world. The politics of academic knowledge about ‘areas’ now feels more urgent than ever. Anti-Atlas plays with the politics of the conventional atlas, with its assumptions about knowledge and power, its hierarchies of value, and its simplifications. It presents a collection of essays written by an eclectic mix of authors from Europe, both east and west, the UK and North America. These entries analyse a necessarily incomplete selection of topics, but they all engage with the question of how an approach to area can be ‘critical’ - and each entry demonstrates different aspects of criticality. The editors develop a manifesto for such criticality, calling attention to positions that are heterodox, area-informed or vernacular, ‘undisciplined’, and collaborative. Through a variety of genres, including the scholarly article, the travel guide, autobiographical reflections and data visualisations, Anti-Atlas provides readers with a diverse series of intellectual resources, asking...

Insight Guides The Silk Road: Travel Guide eBook

Autor: Insight Guides

Número de Páginas: 1017

This Silk Road guidebook is ideal for travellers seeking inspirational guides and planning a more extended trip. It provides interesting facts about the Silk Road's people, history and culture and detailed coverage of the best places to see. This Silk Road travel book has the style of an illustrated magazine to inspire you and give a taste of the Silk Road. The book is printed on paper from responsible sources, and verified to meet FSC's strict environmental and social standards. This Silk Road guidebook covers: China (Shaanxi, Ginsu, Xinjiang), Central Asia (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan), Western Asia (Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey). In this Silk Road travel guidebook, you will find: Unique essays – country history and culture, and modern-day life, people and politics Silk Roadhighlights – Mingsha Shan and Crescent Moon Lake; Heavenly Lake Tianchi; Flaming Mountains near Turpan, China; Lake Karakul; Tajikistan's Pamir Highway; Hunza Valley, Pakistan; Tehran Bazaar; Sunday Market, Kashgar; Peshawar, Pakistan; Isfahan architecture; Xi'an city; Samarkand; Istanbul Practical travel information – getting there and...

High

Autor: Erika Fatland

Número de Páginas: 657

An ambitious and magnificent new travelogue by bestselling and prize-winning author Erika Fatland (The Border and Sovietistan), on a journey along the Himalaya. The Himalaya weave through five very different countries, where the world religions of Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism are mixed with ancient shamanic religions. Countless languages and vastly different cultures live in the secluded mountain valleys. Modernity and tradition collide, while the great powers fight for influence. We have read about mountain climbers on their way up Mount Everest and about travellers on the spiritual quest for Buddhist monasteries. But how much do we know about the people living in the Himalaya? Fatland invites us into close encounters with the many peoples of the region, and at the same time takes us on a dizzying journey at altitude through incredible landscapes and dramatic, unknown world histories - all the way to the most volatile human conflicts of our times.

Kyrgyzstan

Autor: Debbie Nevins

Número de Páginas: 146

Kyrgyzstan isn't a country people generally know a lot about, but its exciting past and fascinating present are worth a closer look. That kind of in-depth focus is presented to readers in this detailed guide to the culture of Kyrgyzstan, featuring fun facts about its language, cuisine, leisure activities, and religious makeup. Readers discover important information about the political structure, economy, and environment of this former Soviet republic. With each turn of the page, colorful photographs, maps, and easy-to-follow recipes make this a cultural adventure unlike any other.

Turkmenistan

Autor: Debbie Nevins

Número de Páginas: 146

Where is Turkmenistan? What kind of government does it have? What do people do there for fun? The answers to these questions and many more are found in this detailed guide to life in this Central Asian nation. As readers dig deep into the history, economics, and culture of Turkmenistan, they'll examine full-color photographs of the different parts of this country. Maps help them visualize what they're reading about in the informative narrative and sidebars. Readers are presented with words and phrases common in Turkmenistan, fun facts about its festivals, and recipes for traditional foods.

Translocality, Entrepreneurship and Middle Class Across Eurasia

Autor: Philipp Schröder

Número de Páginas: 244

Translocality, Entrepreneurship and Middle Class Across Eurasia is a comprehensive, multi-sited ethnography about the unfolding of capitalism across Eurasia and the advent of a new middle class since the late Soviet era. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book follows three generations of ethnic Kyrgyz in three distinct eras and sites: The early bazaar traders of Novosibirsk (Russia), the post-2000 middlemen operating in Guangzhou (China) and the ‘new entrepreneurs’ who have emerged at home in Kyrgyzstan around 2015. The book advocates translocality as an innovative concept to better understand the dialectic of mobility and emplacement in contemporary livelihoods and value chains that transgress not only political borders, but also less tangible socio-cultural boundaries. Through this lens, the chapters forcefully demonstrate how ways of business-making align or conflict with notions of ethnic belonging, diaspora, sociability or gender, in and in-between various locations. Proposing the imaginary of commercial journeys, the book documents the aspirations, adjustments and struggles of an emergent middle class, whose neoliberal subjectivity is inspired by a flexible...

Human Adaptive Strategies

Autor: Daniel Bates , Judith Tucker , Ludomir Lozny

Número de Páginas: 523

This book introduces students to cultural anthropology with an emphasis on environmental and evolutionary approaches, focusing on how humans adapt to their environment and how the environment shapes culture. It shows how cultures evolve within the context of people’s strategies for surviving and thriving in their environments.This approach is widely used among scholars as a cross-disciplinary tool that rewards students with valuable insights into contemporary developments. Drawing on anthropological case studies, the authors address immediate human concerns such as the costs and consequences of human energy requirements, environmental change and degradation, population pressure, social and economic equity, and planned and unplanned change. Impacts of increasingly rapid climatic change on equitable access to resources and issues of human rights are discussed throughout. Towards the end of the book the student is drawn into a challenging thought experiment addressing the possible impacts of climatic warming on Middle America in the year 2040. All chapters conclude with "Summary," "Key Terms," and "Suggested Readings." This book is an ideal text for students of introductory...

The Transition to the Market Economy

Número de Páginas: 506

Congressional Record

Autor: United States. Congress

Número de Páginas: 1380

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Survey

Número de Páginas: 368

Diritto umano alla città in circostanze di conflitto urbano

Autor: Sandro Di Gangi

Número de Páginas: 80

Frutto di un biennio di ricerca condotto presso l’Università “La Sapienza” di Roma, il presente saggio ha come oggetto il contributo al riconoscimento e alla protezione del Diritto Umano alla Città in circostanze di conflitto. I casi studio presi in esame riguardano i conflitti nei territori del Caucaso Meridionale e della Regione Balcanica. The result of two years of research conducted at “La Sapienza” University of Rome, this essay aims to contribute to the recognition and protection of the Human Right to the City in circumstances of conflict. The case studies examined concern conflicts in the territories of the Southern Caucasus and the Balkan Region. Sandro Di Gangi dal 2020 si occupa del Progetto di ricerca denominato HRC - CUC Human Right to The City in Circumstances of Urban Conflict. Dal 2021 conduce attività di ricerca nei territori della Bosnia ed Erzegovina, Distretto di Brčko e nel Caucaso Meridionale, Provincia di Shirak in Armenia, Città di Gyumri. Dal 2001 al 2010 ha condotto attività di ricerca scientifica, nell’ambito della Storia della Pianificazione Coloniale Italiana nell’Africa Orientale. Dopo la Laurea in Architettura (1998), presso...

Diventa un tiranno

Autor: Antonio Losito

Número de Páginas: 225

Se pensate che i tiranni siano figure ormai tramontate dalla Storia, vi sbagliate di grosso. Anzi, oggi come oggi, stanno facendo da ponte tra il Novecento e Tik Tok. E, se in un biennio di Covid si sono moltiplicati più dei virologi, dimostrano di avere anche grandiosi progetti per il futuro. Come Saif Gheddafi, figlio di tanto padre, che nell'agosto 2021 ha dichiarato al «New York Times»: «Devi giocare con la mente del popolo. Devi muoverti lentamente, come in uno spogliarello». Attualmente i sondaggi lo danno al 57% quale futuro leader della Libia... A fronte di questo fenomeno globale, la penna implacabile di Antonio Losito, autore comico di nobile pedigree, ci offre un libro unico, insieme manuale di self-help (i tiranni sono esempi di straordinario successo e qualcosa avranno pure da insegnarci!) e carrellata satirica irresistibile in cui la realtà fa più ridere di qualsiasi fantasia. Queste pagine raccontano di passioni irrefrenabili - come quella del cinefilo Kim Jong-il che rapì un regista e una star -, visioni ultraterrene - Maduro parla con i morti reincarnati in uccelli -, exploit femminili - né Imelda Marcos né Elena Ceausescu hanno conosciuto gender gap - e ...

La frontiera

Autor: Erika Fatland

Número de Páginas: 654

Cosa significa essere il vicino della più grande nazione del mondo? Da sempre attratta dalla cultura e dall’anima russe, Erika Fatland ha dedicato anni a cercare di capire quella terra smisuratamente vasta. Dopo aver sognato di camminare su una grande carta geografica, muovendosi lungo il sinuoso confine russo, decide di tentare un nuovo approccio: è possibile capire un paese e un popolo osservandoli dall’esterno? Comincia così la pianificazione di un itinerario favoloso che, dalla Corea del Nord alla Norvegia, abbraccia l’intera superficie di uno dei giganti della politica mondiale. Partendo da Pyongyang e spostandosi verso ovest a bordo dei mezzi più disparati – aerei a turboelica, treni, cavalli, traghetti, autobus e persino renne e kayak –, l’autrice percorre l’interminabile linea di confine tra la Russia e i paesi vicini. Dall’Oriente all’Asia centrale, e poi attraverso il mar Caspio fino al Caucaso. E ancora, al di là del mar Nero, l’Ucraina divisa dalla guerra, e poi l’Est dell’Europa e i Paesi baltici, fino a Grense Jakobselv, nell’estremo Nord. Da qui, l’esplorazione riprende lungo il gelido Passaggio a nord-est: dalla Cˇukotka, dove...

La vita in alto

Autor: Erika Fatland

Número de Páginas: 433

Pochi altri posti della Terra sono ammantati di leggenda come l’Himalaya, con le sue storie di scalatori che affrontano l’Everest e di viaggiatori alla ricerca di esperienze spirituali nei monasteri buddhisti. Ma cosa sappiamo davvero dei popoli che vivono lassù? Dopo aver raccontato le repubbliche ex sovietiche dell’Asia centrale e gli sterminati confini della Russia, Erika Fatland ci porta sulla catena montuosa più alta del pianeta facendoci scoprire la sua gente, le mille culture, lo splendore dei paesaggi, ma anche la storia poco nota che è all’origine di alcuni tra i conflitti più sanguinosi di oggi e di ieri. Partendo dalla Cina e attraversando il Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal e Tibet, la scrittrice norvegese, uno dei più apprezzati talenti della letteratura di viaggio percorre un nuovo itinerario, affascinante e pieno di sorprese, dove a dominare la scena non sono solo vette maestose e orizzonti infiniti, ma uomini e donne in carne e ossa, di cui raccoglie le testimonianze e descrive le piccole vite che brulicano tra quelle montagne alte come giganti.

A dura vida dos ditadores

Autor: Simone Guida

Número de Páginas: 225

Um livro irônico e curioso que revela os segredos e as loucuras dos ditadores mais famosos e improváveis da história." – IBS O que alguns dos ditadores mais notórios da história têm em comum? Como é a vida sob uma ditadura? Quais são as técnicas e truques para tomar o poder e, talvez mais importante, como manter-se no poder? Por que em momentos de agitações sociais, parte da população abre mão de direitos e liberdades, presumindo que pode confiar tanto no Estado? E por fim, curiosidades, esquisitices e manias dos ditadores, como eles acabaram seus dias e muito mais. Trazendo muita informação numa linguagem direta, esta é uma obra que analisa (e satiriza) os maiores ditadores de nossa história, descrevendo seus passos, atos de poder ditatorial, o ambiente em que foram moldados, a fim de oferecer uma visão ampla sobre como surgem as ditaduras e, também, como podem ser combatidas.

La città degli angeli

Autor: Erika Fatland

Número de Páginas: 256

Ci sono giorni in grado di cambiare per sempre la storia. Il 1° settembre 2004, a Beslan, nell’Ossezia del Nord, davanti alla scuola elementare e media numero 1 sono riuniti gli alunni, impazienti di iniziare il nuovo anno scolastico. È la Giornata della conoscenza, una delle ricorrenze sovietiche che ancora si festeggiano in pompa magna, e il cortile è gremito, tra genitori, parenti, cronisti locali e semplici curiosi. Alle nove e un quarto, improvvisamente, riecheggiano degli spari: è l’inizio di un incubo che durerà tre giorni, durante i quali un commando di terroristi tiene in ostaggio più di mille persone, sotto lo sguardo impotente delle autorità e del mondo. Un blitz dei corpi speciali russi segnerà il tragico epilogo, costato la vita a 334 vittime, di cui 186 bambini. A vent’anni di distanza, sono molti gli interrogativi ancora aperti, troppe le ombre residue sulla vera identità di quegli uomini e sui loro obiettivi. Nel tentativo di trovare risposte, Erika Fatland si è recata a Beslan per due lunghi soggiorni, con lo sguardo della giovane antropologa che poi sarebbe diventata una tra le più grandi narratrici europee dei luoghi di frontiera. Scandagliando...

Sovietistan

Autor: Erika Fatland

Número de Páginas: 492

Con il crollo dell’Unione Sovietica nel 1991, le cinque repubbliche dell’Asia centrale fino ad allora controllate da Mosca ottengono l’indipendenza. Nel corso di settant’anni di regime sovietico, Turkmenistan, Kazakistan, Kirghizistan, Tagikistan e Uzbekistan, i paesi che, dalle catene montuose più alte del mondo al deserto, segnavano un tempo la rotta della Via della Seta, sono in qualche modo passati direttamente dal Medioevo al Ventesimo secolo. E dopo venticinque anni di autonomia, tutte e cinque le nazioni sono ancora alla ricerca della loro identità, strette fra est e ovest e fra vecchio e nuovo, al centro dell’Asia, circondate da grandi potenze come la Russia e la Cina, o da vicini irrequieti come l’Iran e l’Afghanistan. A unirle sono i contrasti, e mentre le steppe si riempiono di edifici ultramoderni e ville sfarzose abitate dai nuovi despoti, continuano a sopravvivere la passione per i tappeti e i bazar, l’amore per i cavalli e i cammelli, e innumerevoli tradizioni che rendono una visita alla regione e ai suoi abitanti indimenticabile. Nel suo grandioso reportage sui paesi alla periferia dell’ex Unione Sovietica, Erika Fatland unisce un approfondito...

Советистан

Autor: Эрика Фатланд

Número de Páginas: 545

В «Советистане» норвежская писательница и социальный антропологЭрика Фатланд приглашает читателя посетить мир, неизвестный даже самым заядлым путешественникам. После распада Советского Союза в 1991 году пять бывших советских республик – Казахстан, Киргизстан, Таджикистан, Туркменистан и Узбекистан – получили независимость. К 2016 году независимость этих стран отметила 25 летний юбилей. В каком направлении стали развиваться эти страны с той поры? С целью исследовать этот вопрос Эрика Фатланд отправилась в свое путешествие. С сочувствием и страстью к повествованию она рассказывает об истории, культуре и состоянии общества в этих странах на...

The Border

Autor: Erika Fatland

Número de Páginas: 448

The acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe. Imperial, communist or autocratic, Russia has been—and remains—a towering and intimidating neighbor. Whether it is North Korea in the Far East through the former Soviet republics in Asia and the Caucasus, or countries on the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea. What would it be like to traverse the entirity of the Russian periphary to examine its effects on those closest to her? An astute and brilliant combination of lyric travel writing and modern history, The Border is a book about Russia without its author ever entering Russia itself. Fatland gets to the heart of what it has meant to be the neighbor of that mighty, expanding empire throughout history. As we follow Fatland on her jounrey, we experience the colouful, exciting, tragic and often unbelievable histories of these bordering nations along with their cultures, their people, their landscapes. Sharply observed and wholly absorbing, The Border is a surprsing new way to understand a broad part our world.

The Border

Autor: Erika Fatland

Número de Páginas: 442

The acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe. Imperial, communist or autocratic, Russia has been—and remains—a towering and intimidating neighbor. Whether it is North Korea in the Far East through the former Soviet republics in Asia and the Caucasus, or countries on the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea. What would it be like to traverse the entirety of the Russian periphery to examine its effects on those closest to her? An astute and brilliant combination of lyric travel writing and modern history, The Border is a book about Russia without its author ever entering Russia itself. Fatland gets to the heart of what it has meant to be the neighbor of that mighty, expanding empire throughout history. As we follow Fatland on her journey, we experience the colorful, exciting, tragic and often unbelievable histories of these bordering nations along with their cultures, their people, their landscapes. Sharply observed and wholly absorbing, The Border is a surprising new way to understand a broad part our world.