The Kazakhs
By: Martha Brill Olcott.
Series: Studies of nationalities in the USSR; Hoover Press publication ;; 338
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Kazakhstan -- History.
Description: Martha Brill Olcott chronicles the pageant of Kazakh history as it marches across the vast steppes of Central Asia. She details the major events that have shaped the character of this Islamic nation of Turkic speaking people, which exists as a cultural and ethnic minority wihtin the political boundaries of the Soviet Union. The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic encompasses an area of more than one million square miles, shares a long and strategic border with China, is larger than Western Europe, and has a population that is the fourth largest in the Soviet Union. Professor Olcott highlights the critical economic and political problems that confront the seven million people of the Kazakh nation. -- from back cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [309]-334.
Includes index.