The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan

Dr. Sarah Cameron is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland. Her research interests include genocide and crimes against humanity, environmental history and the societies and cultures of Central Asia. Her book, "The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan" (Cornell University Press, 2018), examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1930–33. As part of a radical social engineering scheme, Josef Stalin sought to settle the Kazakh nomads and force them into collective farms.

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