Stalin's Nomads: Power and Famine in Kazakhstan

by Robert Kindler

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)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822965437
• ISBN13: 9780822965435
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"