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Author :Pavel Stepanovich Nazároff Publisher :Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 13 :9780192803689 Total Pages :356 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (36 download)
Book Synopsis Hunted Through Central Asia by : Pavel Stepanovich Nazároff
Download or read book Hunted Through Central Asia written by Pavel Stepanovich Nazároff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My position was uncomfortable. Here was I, in an absolutely exposed place, with Red Guards and commissars on every side. I had very little money left and no means of transport at all.' Paul Nazaroff was the ringleader of a desperate plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia in 1918. He was betrayed to the Secret Police, who declared him 'the most dangerous counter-revolutionary at large in the Tashkent region'. Thus began his extraordinary catalogue of adventures, 'a long and distant odyssey which would take me right across Central Asia ... over the Himalayas to the plains of Hindustan'.
Book Synopsis Hunted Through Central Asia by : Pavel Stepanovich Nazároff
Download or read book Hunted Through Central Asia written by Pavel Stepanovich Nazároff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Pavel Nazaroff reads more like something out of a spy thriller than one man's true story. Nazaroff, the ringleader of a plot to overthrow Bolshevik rule in Central Asia in 1918, was betrayed to the dreaded Cheka, or Bolshevik secret police, who quickly condemned him to death as "a known enemy of the proletariat." Just before his execution, however, a White Russian uprising stormed the prison in Tashkent where Nazaroff was held and in the confusion he escaped. And so began what he was later to describe as "a long and distant odyssey which would take me right across Central Asia, to the mysterious land of Tibet, and over the Himalayas to the plains of Hindustan." On his journey we was aided by the Kirghiz and the Sarts, Moslem peoples who also detested the Bolsheviks. At one point, Nazaroff was walled up in a Sart's dwelling for his own protection, and for many months he lived "the life of a hunted animal." As the months passed, Nazaroff realized that his counter-revolutionary cause was a hopeless one, and that his only recourse was to flee across the world's tallest mountain range into China. The final stage of his adventure, in which he must evade both the pursuing Cheka and the Chinese border guards, will keep readers on the very edges of their seats. Hunted Through Central Asia also offers a fascinating introduction to the life and times of Nazaroff by Peter Hopkirk, as well as an Epilogue in which Hopkirk includes details of the counter-revolutionary's life after his dramatic escape from the Cheka. Anyone who enjoys a good spy novel will be thrilled by this true story of espionage and international intrigue.
Book Synopsis Hunted Through Central Asia by : Павел Степанович Назаров
Download or read book Hunted Through Central Asia written by Павел Степанович Назаров and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hunted Through Central Asia by : Pavel Stepanovich Nazarov
Download or read book Hunted Through Central Asia written by Pavel Stepanovich Nazarov and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hunted through Central Asia by : Pavel Stepanovič Nazarov
Download or read book Hunted through Central Asia written by Pavel Stepanovič Nazarov and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Everyday Life in Central Asia by : Jeff Sahadeo
Download or read book Everyday Life in Central Asia written by Jeff Sahadeo and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating anthology provides a range of perspectives on daily life across Central Asia and how it has changed in the post-Soviet era. For its citizens, contemporary Central Asia is a land of great promise and peril. While the end of Soviet rule has opened new opportunities for social mobility and cultural expression, political and economic dynamics have also imposed severe hardships. In this lively volume, contributors from a variety of disciplines examine how ordinary Central Asians lead their lives and navigate shifting historical and political trends. Provocative stories of Turkmen nomads, Afghan villagers, Kazakh scientists, Kyrgyz border guards, a Tajik strongman, guardians of religious shrines in Uzbekistan, and other narratives illuminate important issues of gender, religion, power, culture, and wealth. A vibrant and dynamic world of life in urban neighborhoods and small villages, at weddings and celebrations, at classroom tables, and around dinner tables emerges from this introduction to a geopolitically strategic and culturally fascinating region.
Book Synopsis The Revolt of 1916 in Russian Central Asia by : Edward Dennis Sokol
Download or read book The Revolt of 1916 in Russian Central Asia written by Edward Dennis Sokol and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive study of a nearly forgotten genocide, reissued with a new foreword. During the summer of 1916, approximately 270,000 Central Asians—Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks—perished at the hands of the Russian army in a revolt that began with resistance to the Tsar’s World War I draft. In addition to those killed outright, tens of thousands of men, women, and children died while trying to escape over treacherous mountain passes into China. Experts calculate that the Kyrgyz, who suffered most heavily, lost 40% of their total population. This horrific incident was nearly lost to history. During the Soviet era, the massacre of 1916 became a taboo subject, hidden in sealed archives and banished from history books. Edward Dennis Sokol’s pioneering Revolt of 1916 in Russian Central Asia, published in 1954 and reissued now for the first time in decades, was for generations the only scholarly study of the massacre in any language. Drawing on early Soviet periodicals, including Krasnyi Arkhiv (The Red Archive), Sokol’s wide-ranging and exhaustively researched work explores the Tsarist policies that led to Russian encroachment against the land and rights of the indigenous Central Asian people. It describes the corruption that permeated Russian colonial rule and argues that the uprising was no mere draft riot, but a revolt against Tsarist colonialism in all its dimensions: economic, political, religious, and national. Sokol’s masterpiece also traces the chain reaction between the uprising, the collapse of Tsarism, and the Bolshevik Revolution. A classic study of a vanished world, Sokol's work takes on contemporary resonance in light of Vladimir Putin’s heavy-handed efforts to persuade Kyrgyzstan to join his new economic union. Sokol explains how an earlier Russian conquest ended in disaster and implies that a modern conquest might have the same effect. Essential reading for historians, political scientists, and policymakers, this reissued edition is being published to coincide with the centennial observation of the genocide.
Book Synopsis Globalizing Central Asia by : Marlene Laruelle
Download or read book Globalizing Central Asia written by Marlene Laruelle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this global era, Central Asia must be understood in both geo-economic and geopolitical terms. The region's natural resources compel the attention of rivalrous great powers and ambitious internal factions. The local regimes are caught between the need for international collaborations to valorize these riches and the need to maintain control over them in the interest of state sovereignty. Russia and China dominate the horizon, with other global players close behind; meanwhile, neighboring countries are fractious and unstable with real potential for contagion. This pathbreaking introduction to Central Asia in contemporary international economic and political context answers the needs of both academic and professional audiences and is suitable for course adoption.
Book Synopsis Land Beyond the River by : Monica Whitlock
Download or read book Land Beyond the River written by Monica Whitlock and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the banks of the river once called Oxus lie the heartlands of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Catapulted into the news by events in Afghanistan, just across the water, these strategically important, intriguing and beautiful countries remain almost completely unknown to the outside world. In this book, Monica Whitlock goes far beyond the headlines. Using eyewitness accounts, unpublished letters and firsthand reporting, she enters into the lives of the Central Asians and reveals a dramatic and moving human story unfolding over three generations. There is Muhammadjan, called 'Hindustani', a diligent seminary student in the holy city of Bukhara until the 1917 revolution tore up the old order. Exiled to Siberia as a shepherd and then conscripted into the Red Army, he survived to become the inspiration for a new generation of clerics. Henrika was one of tens of thousands of Poles who walked and rode through Central Asia on their way to a new life in Iran, where she lives to this day. Then there were the proud Pioneer children who grew up in the certainty that the Soviet Union would last forever, only to find themselves in a new world that they had never imagined. In Central Asia, the extraordinary is commonplace and there is not a family without a remarkable story to tell. Land Beyond the River is both a chronicle of a century and a clear-eyed, authoritative view of contemporary events.
Book Synopsis Russian Central Asia by : Richard A. Pierce
Download or read book Russian Central Asia written by Richard A. Pierce and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Revival: Moved on! From Kashgar to Kashmir (1935) by : Pavel Stepanovich Nazaroff
Download or read book Revival: Moved on! From Kashgar to Kashmir (1935) written by Pavel Stepanovich Nazaroff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pavel Nazaroff travels from Kashgar, through the Kuen Lun and Karakoram mountains and on to Srinagar, Kashmir in the early 1930s, and describes the people and places he visited.
Book Synopsis Russian Central Asia 1867-1917 by : Richard A. Pierce
Download or read book Russian Central Asia 1867-1917 written by Richard A. Pierce and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1960.
Book Synopsis Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics by : Rafis Abazov
Download or read book Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics written by Rafis Abazov and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-12-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan won their independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Now they are emerging from the shadow of dominance and are subjects of intense interest from the West. The modern culture and customs of the various peoples in these geopolitical hotspots, straddling the far reaches of Europe into Asia, are revealed to a general audience for the first time. This will be the must-have volume for a broad, authoritative overview of these traditional civilizations as they cope with globalization.
Book Synopsis Through Russian Central Asia by : Stephen Graham
Download or read book Through Russian Central Asia written by Stephen Graham and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Central Asian Revolt of 1916 by : Alexander Morrison
Download or read book The Central Asian Revolt of 1916 written by Alexander Morrison and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War. This volume is the first comprehensive re-assessment of its causes, course and consequences in English for over sixty years. It draws together a new generation of leading historians from North America, Japan, Europe, Russia and Central Asia, working with Russian archival sources, oral narratives, poetry and song in Kazakh and Kyrgyz. These illuminate in unprecedented detail the origins and causes of the revolt, and the immense human suffering which it entailed. They also situate the revolt in a global perspective as part of a chain of rebellions and disturbances that shook the world’s empires, as they crumbled under the pressures of total war.
Book Synopsis Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia by : Ella Constance Sykes
Download or read book Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia written by Ella Constance Sykes and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kyrgyzstan written by Laurence Mitchell and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of Bradt's unique and much praised guide to Kyrgyzstan.
