Description: A comprehensive and unsettling account of the Soviet campaign to forcefully sedentarize and collectivize the Kazakh clans. 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) caused the death of nearly one third of the Kazakh population.
Review Quotes: Kindler [has] made significant, likely definitive, contributions to our understanding of the Kazakh famine.-- "Revolutionary Russia"