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

With Sarah Cameron, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland

Event Details

Date
Thursday, July 15, 2021
Time
4-5:15 p.m.
Location
Description
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.
Cost
Free

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