Dark Shadows

Kazakhstan's troubled 20th century history was in the spotlight when Joanna Lillis, author of Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan, was interviewed for Nick Shepley's excellent Explaining History  podcast. Click here to tune into the podcast.

Tune in to Talk Radio Europe on Monday, 10 December to hear Joanna Lillis, author of Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan, interviewed on Let's Talk with Giles Brown. Joanna will be live on air at 10.30 GMT (16.30 Almaty Time) to talk about her book and life in Kazakhstan.

This December's copy of History Today features an article, Kazakhstan's Bloody December , by Joanna Lillis, author of Dark Shadows:Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan, that looks back at 1986's Zheltoksan (December in Kazakh) demonstrations in what was then Alma-Ata (present-day Almaty) in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kazakhstan). The article takes an in-depth look at the events that shook the Soviet Union three decades ago. The anniversary of the demonstrations is on 16 December, which symbolically became Kazakhstan's independence day from the Soviet Union, which it left in 1991. To read more about this topic, dig into your copy of Dark Shadows.