The Hungry Steppe - Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan (Paperback)

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 into Soviet society the way Moscow intended. The experience of the famine scarred the republic and shaped its transformation into an independent nation in 1991. Cameron examines the Kazakh famine to overturn several assumptions about violence, modernization, and nation-making under Stalin, highlighting the creation of a new Kazakh national identity and how environmental factors shaped Soviet development. Ultimately, The Hungry Steppe depicts the Soviet regime and its disastrous policies in a new and unusual light.

General

Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2020
First published:	2018
Authors:	Sarah Cameron
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	294
ISBN-13:	978-1-5017-5201-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-5017-5201-4
Barcode:	9781501752018

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