Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia

by Paula A. Michaels

Finalist, PEN Center USA Literary Awards, Research NonfictionRich in oil and strategically located between Russia and China, Kazakhstan is one of the most economically and geopolitically important of the so-called Newly Independent States that emerged after the USSR's collapse. Yet little is known in the West about the region's turbulent history under Soviet rule, particularly how the regime asserted colonial dominion over the Kazakhs and other ethnic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822961296
• ISBN13: 9780822961291
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"