Format: Paperback
Pages: 328
ISBN: 9780822965435
Pub Date: 21 Aug 2018
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Central Eurasia in Context
Illustrations: 14 b&w Illustrations
Description:
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.