The Hungry Steppe
Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan
The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime: the Kazakh famine of 1930-33. More than 1.5 million people, a quarter of Kazakhstan's population, perished. Yet the story of this famine has remained mostly hidden from view. Sarah Cameron reveals this brutal story and its devastating consequences for Kazakh society.Through extremely violent means, the Kazakh famine created Soviet Kazakhstan, a stable territory with clear boundaries that was an integral part of the Soviet economy; and it forged a new Kazakh national identity. But ultimately, Cameron finds, neither Kazakhstan nor Kazakhs themselves integrated in…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5017-3044-3
- EAN: 9781501730443
- Produktnummer: 26341772
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 294 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'116 KB
- Abbildungen: 14 b&w halftones, 4 maps
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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