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Stalin's Nomads - Power and Famine in Kazakhstan (Paperback)
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Stalin's Nomads - Power and Famine in Kazakhstan (Paperback)
Series: Central Eurasia in Context
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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. Viewing the nomadic life as
unproductive, and their lands unused and untilled, Stalin and his
inner circle pursued a campaign of violence and subjugation, rather
than attempting any dialog or cultural assimilation. The results
were catastrophic, as the conflict and an ensuing famine
(1931-1933) caused the death of nearly one third of the Kazakh
population. Hundreds of thousands of nomads became refugees and a
nomadic culture and social order were essentially destroyed in less
than five years. Kindler provides an in-depth analysis of Soviet
Rule, economic and political motivations, and the role of remote
and local Soviets officials and Kazakhs during the crisis. This is
the first English-language translation of an important and
harrowing history, largely unknown to Western audiences prior to
Kindler's study.
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