The Kazakhs
"This complete history of one of the largest non-Slavic ethnic groups charts it from its emergence in the mid-fifteenth century to the present. Martha Brill Olcott details the major events that have shaped the character of the Islamic nation of Kazakhstan, discussing the rise and fall of the Kazakh khanate, the Kazakhs in imperial Russia, revolutionary and Soviet Kazakhstan, and the struggle for autonomy under Soviet rule."--BOOK JACKET. "Up-to-date material continues the Kazakhs' story from the dismissal of Dinmukhamed Akhmedovich Kunaev, chairman of the Council of Ministers (December 1986) to independence (December 1991) to the present. Outlining changes in Kazakh historiography since the fall of the Soviet Union, this volume identifies areas of contention and ways in which new groups of scholars, using new sources, are approaching them."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1995
Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1995
History
xxiii, 388 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : maps ; 24 cm.
9780817993511, 9780817993528, 0817993517, 0817993525
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1. Origin of the Kazakhs and the Formation of the Kazakh Khanate
2. The Russian Conquest
3. The Development of a Colonial Apparatus
4. The Land Problem
5. The Growth of Discontent Among the Kazakhs
6. The Revolution and Civil War in the Kazakh Steppe
7. The New Economic Policy in Kazakhstan
8. Collectivization and the Stalinist Economic System
9. The Creation of a Soviet Apparatus in Kazakhstan
10. The Virgin Lands and the Creation of a Socialist Kazakhstan
11. Unexpected Independence
12. Creating an Independent Kazakhstan