These books showcase the most recent scholarship on how Central Asia was gradually taken over by the Russian and Chinese empires, and how the republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan were created, as well as Xinjiang Province in the People’s Republic of China. His trials began early, when the Soviet government's drive to collectivise farming and herding reached the vast steppes of Russia's central Asian empire, and specifically east Kazakhstan. Many people are fascinated by the ancient Silk Road, but don’t know much about how we got from there to the “Stans” that emerged out of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Mukhamet Shayakhmetov was a member of a traditional Kazakh nomadic tribe. I have written on Stalin’s attempt to destroy Islam, on education and creating a historical narrative for Uzbekistan, and on cotton and manual labor under Khrushchev. My formal research specialty is Soviet Central Asia. Russians, Turks, Iranians, Mongols and more have been intertwined with each other throughout their histories. Born into a family of nomadic Kazakh herdsmen in 1922. by Mukhamet Shayakhmetov, Anthony Gardner, et al. Buy a cheap copy of The Silent Steppe: The Story of a Kazakh. We usually think of these as separate regions of the world, but in fact they are all connected across the vast Eurasian continent. The Silent Steppe: The Story of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin. I teach courses on Russian history, Central Asia, and the modern Middle East. I am a historian of Russia and Eurasia at Hamilton College.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |