Sarah Cameron
Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan
Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan
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The Kazakh famine of 1930-1933 was a heinous crime of the Stalinist regime that transformed a territory the size of continental Europe and caused over 1.5 million people to perish. Sarah Cameron's book, The Hungry Steppe, reveals this brutal story and its devastating consequences for Kazakh society. It shows how the famine created Soviet Kazakhstan and forged a new Kazakh national identity, but also highlights the unevenness of this state-driven modernization project and how environmental factors shaped Soviet development.
\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 294 pages
\n Publication date: 15 November 2020
\n Publisher: Cornell University Press
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The Kazakh famine of 1930-1933, one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, is examined in The Hungry Steppe. Over 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. However, the story of this famine has remained mostly hidden from view. Sarah Cameron, through state and Communist party documents, oral history, and memoir accounts in Russian and Kazakh, reveals this brutal story and its devastating consequences for Kazakh society.
The Kazakh famine created Soviet Kazakhstan, a stable territory with clearly delineated boundaries that was an integral part of the Soviet economic system. It forged a new Kazakh national identity. However, this state-driven modernization project was uneven. Ultimately, Cameron finds that neither Kazakhstan nor Kazakhs themselves were integrated into the Soviet system in precisely the ways that Moscow had originally hoped. The experience of the famine scarred the republic for the remainder of the Soviet era and shaped its transformation into an independent nation in 1991.
Cameron uses her history of the Kazakh famine to overturn several assumptions about violence, modernization, and nation-making under Stalin. She highlights, in particular, 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.
\n Weight: 452g\n
Dimension: 152 x 230 x 21 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781501752018\n \n
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