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Author Cameron, Sarah I., 1977- author.

Title The hungry steppe : famine, violence, and the making of Soviet Kazakhstan / Sarah I. Cameron
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2018

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Contents The steppe and the sown : peasants, nomads and the transformation of the Kazakh steppe, 1896-1921 -- Can you get to socialism by camel? : The fate of pastoral nomadism in Soviet Kazakhstan, 1921-1928 -- Kazakhstan's "little October" : the campaign against Kazakh elites, 1928 -- Nomads under siege : Kazakhstan and the launch of forced collectivization -- Violence, flight and hunger : the Sino-Kazakh border and the Kazakh famine -- Kazakhstan and the politics of hunger, 1931-1934
Summary "The book brings the largely unknown story of the Kazakh famine of 1930-33 to light, using this case study to overturn several assumptions about violence, modernization, and nation-making under Stalin"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Collectivization of agriculture
Famines
Nomads -- Sedentarization
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125814
Subject Kazakhstan
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018008082
ISBN 9781501730450
1501730452
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9781501730443
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9781501730436