Hungry Steppe
The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1930-33. Yet the story of this famine has remained mostly hidden from view. More than 1.5 million people perished in this famine, a quarter of Kazakhstan's population, and… Celý popis ↓
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Hungry Steppe
The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1930-33. Yet the story of this famine has remained mostly hidden from view. More than 1.5 million people perished in this famine, a quarter of Kazakhstan's population, and the crisis transformed a territory the size of continental Europe.
But this state-driven modernization project was uneven. Drawing upon state and Communist party documents, as well as oral history and memoir accounts in Russian and in Kazakh, Sarah Cameron reveals this brutal story and its devastating consequences for Kazakh society.Through the most violent of means the Kazakh famine created Soviet Kazakhstan, a stable territory with clearly delineated boundaries that was an integral part of the Soviet economic system; and it forged a new Kazakh national identity. Ultimately, Cameron finds, neither
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