The Kazakhs

The Kazakhs
ISBN-10
0817993525
ISBN-13
9780817993528
Category
History
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press Publi
Author
Martha Brill Olcott

Description

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.

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