A gripping journey through some of the planet's mostremote and challenging terrain and its peoples, in searchof why democracy has yet to thrive in lands it seemedso recently ready to overtakeAcross the largest landmass on earth, in lands onceconquered by Genghis Khan and exploited by ruthlessCommunist regimes, autocratic and dictatorial states are againarising, growing wealthy on petrodollars and low-cost manufacturing.More and more, they are challenging theWest.Media reports focus on developments in Moscow andBeijing, but the peoples inhabiting the vast expanses inbetween remain mostly unseen and unheard, their daily livesand aspirations scarcely better known to us now than theywere in ColdWar days.Tayler finds, among many others, adissident Cossack advocating mass beheadings, a Muslimin Kashgar calling on the United States to bomb Beijing, andChinese youths in Urumqi desiring nothing more than sex,booze, and rock 'n' rolla??all while confronting over and overagain the contradiction...

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