The Kazakhs - Hardcover

Martha Brill Olcott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0817983813 ISBN 13: 9780817983819

Publisher: Hoover Institution Press,U.S., 1987

Synopsis

This compete history of one of the largest non-Slavic ethnic groups charts it from its emergence in the mid—fifteenth century to the present. Olcott details the major events that have shaped the character of the Islamic nation of Kazakhstan, discussing the rise and fall of the Kazakh Khanate, the Kazakhs in imperial Russia, revolutionary and Soviet Kazakhstan, and the struggle for autonomy under Soviet rule. Up-to-date material continues the Kazakhs' story from the dismissal of Dinmukhamed Akhmedovich Kunaev, chairman of the Council of Ministers (December 1986), to independence (December 1991) to the present. Outlining changes in Kazakh historiography since the fall of the Soviet Union, this volume identifies areas of contention and ways in whch new groups of scholars, using new sources are approaching them.

About this title

About the Author:

Martha Brill Olcott is professor of political science at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York and senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institution in Philadelphia.

Review:

"The Kazakhs is quite simply the best one-volume introduction we have to any of the traditionally Islamic peoples of the [former] USSR."

About this edition

• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0817983813
• ISBN 13: 9780817983819
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 367