The Hungry Steppe : : Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan /

The Hungry Steppe : : Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan / / Sarah Cameron.

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 perished in this famine, a quarter of Kazakhstan's population, and the crisis transformed a territory the size of continental Europe. Yet the story of th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Cameron, Sarah,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (294 p.) :; 14 b&w halftones, 4 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Explanatory Note
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Steppe and the Sown: Peasants, Nomads, and the Transformation of the Kazakh Steppe, 1896–1921
  • 2. Can You Get to Socialism by Camel? The Fate of Pastoral Nomadism in Soviet Kazakhstan, 1921–28
  • 3. Kazakhstan’s “Little October”: The Campaign against Kazakh Elites, 1928
  • 4. Nomads under Siege: Kazakhstan and the Launch of Forced Collectivization
  • 5. Violence, Flight, and Hunger: The Sino-Kazakh Border and the Kazakh Famine
  • 6. Kazakhstan and the Politics of Hunger, 1931–34
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: Precipitation Levels for the Kazakh Steppe, 1921–33
  • Glossary
  • List of Abbreviations Used in the Notes
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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