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Robert Kindler's seminal work is a comprehensive and unsettling account of the Soviet campaign to forcefully sedentarize and collectivize the Kazakh clans. View
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Pages: 277
Authors: Alun Thomas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-14 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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The nomads of Central Asia were already well accustomed to life under the power of a distant capital when the Bolsheviks fomented revolution on the streets of P
The Hungry Steppe
Language: en
Pages: 433
Authors: Sarah Cameron
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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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 Ka
The Silent Steppe
Language: en
Pages: 378
Authors: Mukhamet Shai͡akhmetov
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"Here is a rare book. It is the first-person story of Mukhamet Shayakhmetov, born into a family of nomadic Kazakh herdsmen in 1922, the year of the consolidatio
Stalin's Folly
Language: en
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Authors: Konstantin Pleshakov
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Stalin's cunning and ruthlessness brought him to supreme power in the Soviet Union. Yet in the summer of 1941 he appeared to lose his touch. With unparalleled a