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Stalin's nomads : power and famine in Kazakhstan

Kindler, Robert, 1978- author, Klohr, Cynthia, 1954- translator

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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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Subject: Famines Kazakhstan History 20th century. / Famines Soviet Union History 20th century. / Nomads Sedentarization Kazakhstan History 20th century. / Collectivization of agriculture Kazakhstan History 20th century. / Kazakhstan History 20th century. / Soviet Union History 1925-1953.
• ISBN: 9780822965435, 0822965437

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DK908.8618.K56 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE