Lecture: The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan
When: Thu., Jan. 17, 8 p.m. 2019
Dr. Sarah Cameron’s research focuses on genocide and crimes against humanity, environmental history, and the societies and cultures of Central Asia. This talk will use the case study of one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1930-1933, to overturn several assumptions about violence, modernization, and nation-making under Stalin.