Sarah Cameron

The Hungry Steppe (eBook, ePUB)

Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501730450
• Artikelnr.: 56800080

Autorenporträt

Sarah Cameron is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

Explanatory Note
List of Maps
Introduction
1. The Steppe and the Sown: Peasants, Nomads, and the Transformation of the
Kazakh Steppe, 1896-1921
2. Can You Get to Socialism by Camel? The Fate of Pastoral Nomadism in
Soviet Kazakhstan, 1921-28
3. Kazakhstan's "Little October": The Campaign against Kazakh Elites, 1928
4. Nomads under Siege: Kazakhstan and the Launch of Forced Collectivization
5. Violence, Flight, and Hunger: The Sino-Kazakh Border and the Kazakh
Famine
6. Kazakhstan and the Politics of Hunger, 1931-34
Conclusion
Epilogue
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Precipitation Levels for the Kazakh Steppe, 1921-33
List of Abbreviations Used in the Notes
Notes
Bibliography
Index