The Kazakhs
By (author): "Martha Brill Olcott"
Publish Date:
1986
ISBN0817993525
ISBN139780817993528
AsinThe Kazakhs
Original titleThe Kazakhs (Studies of Nationalities)
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.