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

The Kazakh famine of the 1930s was one of the great crimes of the Stalinist regime. But until recently, the crisis was little known in the West. In her talk, which draws from her recently published book, The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan (Cornell University Press, 2018), Sarah Cameron will discuss the causes of Kazakh disaster and and its consequences for Kazakh society.