A Dark Path to Freedom

A Dark Path to Freedom
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 9781849049153
ISBN-13 : 1849049157
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Book Synopsis A Dark Path to Freedom by : Enver Altayli

Download or read book A Dark Path to Freedom written by Enver Altayli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Margilan, Central Asia on the eve of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Ruzi Nazar had one of the most exciting lives of the twentieth century. Charming, intellectually brilliant and passionately committed to the liberation of Central Asia from Russian rule, his life was a series of adventures and narrow escapes. He was successively a Soviet student, a Red Army officer, an officer in the German Turkestan Legion during World War II, a fugitive living in postwar Germany's underworld, and finally an immigrant to the United States who rose high in the CIA. Here he mixed with the powerful and famous, represented the US as a diplomat in Ankara and Bonn, and became an undercover agent in Iran after the hostage crisis of 1979-81. Nazar's foresight was formidable. He predicted that communism would collapse from within, briefing Reagan on the weakness of the Soviet system before the Reagan-Gorbachev talks. A Muslim who rejected Islamism, his warnings to the US government about the dangers of Islamic radicalism fell on deaf ears. This remarkable biography casts unique light on the lives of people caught up in the turmoil of the Soviet Union, World War II, the Cold War, and the struggle of nationalities deprived of their freedom by communism to regain independence.


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