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Film, Video The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence & the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan

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Title

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

Summary

  • Kluge Fellow Sarah Cameron analyzes a little-known episode of Stalinist social engineering, the Kazakh famine of 1930-33, which led to the death of more than 1.5 million people, a quarter of Soviet Kazakhstan's population. Using memoirs, oral history accounts, and archival documents, she explores the stories of those who lived through the famine, asking how this crisis reshaped Soviet Kazakhstan and what it meant to be "Kazakh," and how the case of the Kazakh famine alters understandings of development and nation-building under Stalin.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2016-10-20.

Headings

  • -  Education
  • -  Government, World Affairs
  • -  Famine, Violence, Soviet Kazakhstan, 1930-1933

Notes

  • -  Classification: Political Science.
  • -  Sarah Cameron.
  • -  Recorded on 2016-10-20.
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  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021690332

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence & the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -10-20, 2016. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690332/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2016) The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence & the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -10-20. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690332/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence & the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -10-20, 2016. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021690332/>.