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The hungry steppe, famine, violence, and the making of Soviet Kazakhstan, Sarah Cameron

Label
The hungry steppe, famine, violence, and the making of Soviet Kazakhstan, Sarah Cameron
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
mapsillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The hungry steppe
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1023814925
Responsibility statement
Sarah Cameron
Sub title
famine, violence, and the making of Soviet Kazakhstan
Summary
"The book brings the largely unknown story of the Kazakh famine of 1930-33 to light, using this case study to overturn several assumptions about violence, modernization, and nation-making under Stalin"--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
The steppe and the sown : peasants, nomads and the transformation of the Kazakh steppe, 1896-1921 -- Can you get to socialism by camel? : The fate of pastoral nomadism in Soviet Kazakhstan, 1921-1928 -- Kazakhstan's "little October" : the campaign against Kazakh elites, 1928 -- Nomads under siege : Kazakhstan and the launch of forced collectivization -- Violence, flight and hunger : the Sino-Kazakh border and the Kazakh famine -- Kazakhstan and the politics of hunger, 1931-1934
Content
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