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portada West Meets East in Kazakhstan: Life in and Around Almaty, Kazakhstan, in the 1990's From the Perspective of an American Expat
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Physical Book
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Year
2020
Language
English
Pages
268
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9781643766621
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West Meets East in Kazakhstan: Life in and Around Almaty, Kazakhstan, in the 1990's From the Perspective of an American Expat

Thomas E. Johnson (Author) · Lightning Source Inc · Paperback

West Meets East in Kazakhstan: Life in and Around Almaty, Kazakhstan, in the 1990's From the Perspective of an American Expat - Thomas E. Johnson

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Synopsis "West Meets East in Kazakhstan: Life in and Around Almaty, Kazakhstan, in the 1990's From the Perspective of an American Expat "

The author gained considerable experience of working in countries in the Soviet sphere in the 1980s--Yugoslavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary--but this did little to prepare him for a long-term stint in Kazakhstan, commencing at the outset of 1993. If his eyes were opened wide in Belgrade, Warsaw, Prague, and Budapest, they were bug-eyed in Almaty, Kazakhstan. There he keenly experienced the harshness and wonders of post-Soviet Kazakhstan. The good news is that Tom Johnson wrote a series of articles for a local English language newspaper, The Almaty Herald, detailing his observations about life in and around Almaty in the 1990s from the perspective of an American expatriate. West Meets East in Kazakhstan is based on those articles, to which the author has added substantial new material. With wry humor, a positive attitude, and an easy-to-read writing style, the author recounts the gentle and not-so-gentle culture shock that he experienced. It is difficult to describe the book's content. Each chapter stands by itself and might be devoted to such topics as the following: the heavy weight of documentation required by the bureaucracy, the peculiar habit of carrying flowers with the wet ends up and the flowers down, the lack of public gathering places, or the outlandish nature of goodbye parties for departing expatriates. Several chapters describe the author's forages into the countryside to visit lakes, waterfalls, burial mounds, and "singing" dunes. West Meets East in Kazakhstan makes a good read for anyone interested in life and living conditions in Kazakhstan, as well as the former Soviet Union. Foreigners who lived or worked in Kazakhstan during the period when the Communist economy was collapsing and before the market economy took root should particularly enjoy the book.

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