Year: 1995
Author: Martha Brill Olcott
Genre: History
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
ISBN: 0-8179-9351-7
Series: Studies of Nationalities
English language
Format: DjVu
Number of Pages: 427

This book is devoted to the history of one of the largest non-Slavic ethnic groups of the former Soviet Union from its appearance in the middle of the fifteenth century to the present day. Olcott examines in detail the main events that determined the character of the Islamic people of Kazakhstan, discussing the rise and fall of the Kazakh Khanate, Kazakhs in tsarist Russia, revolutionary and Soviet Kazakhstan, and his struggle for autonomy. The problem of Kazakhstan's gaining independence and its modern history are also touched upon.

List of Appendixes
Foreword to the Second Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
Note on Transliteration
PART ONE. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE KAZAKH KHANATE
Origin of the Kazakhs and the Formation of the Kazakh Khanate
The Russian Conquest
PART TWO. THE KAZAKHS IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA
The Development of a Colonial Apparatus
The Land Problem
PART THREE. REVOLUTIONARY AND SOVIET KAZAKKHSTAN
The Revolution and Civil War in the Kazakh Steppe
The New Economic Policy in Kazakhstan
Collectivization and the Stalinist Economic System
The Creation of a Soviet Apparatus in Kazakhstan
The Virgin Lands and the Creation of a Socialist Kazakhstan
PART FOUR. INDEPENDENT KAZAKHSTAN
Unexpected Independence
Creating an Independent Kazakhstan
Appendixes
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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