Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (871 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1585679550 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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His trials began early, when the Soviet government's drive to collectivise farming and herding reached the vast steppes of Russia's central Asian empire, and specifically east Kazakhstan. About the Author Mukhamet Shayakhmetov was a member of a traditional Kazakh nomadic tribe.
His trials began early, when the Soviet government's drive to collectivise farming and herding reached the vast steppes of Russia's central Asian empire, and specifically east Kazakhstan. . Mukhamet Shayakhmetov was a member of a traditional Kazakh nomadic tribe
"The lost world of the Kazakhs preserved for posterity" according to keetmom. This is an amazing story told by a most remarkable individual. Mukamet Shayakhmetov lived through turbulent times and had heavy responsibilities thrust on him at a very young age, yet he records his survival through harrowing experiences with total equanimity. He bears no resentment against those who wro. J. Hyry said Great historical novel. This is a very interesting picture of how it was for the Kazakhs during the time of Stalin, and how their culture was all but destroyed. The successful were reduced to poverty, having everything they valued taken away from them. This book shows how the former clan / family system was replaced by suspicio. Amazing eye-witness account This book was a welcome eye witness account; well organized, poignant. My understanding of the Kazakh people has grown, as has my thankfulness to God for his mercy in preserving a nation amidst such suffering.
Told with dignity and detachment, this central Asian Wild Swans awakens the reader to the scale of suffering of millions of Kazakhs, and also astonishes and inspires as a most singular survivor's tale.. In the following years the family traveled thousands of miles across Kazakhstan by foot, surviving on the charity of relatives. This is a first-hand account of the genocide of the Kazakh nomads in the 1920s and 30s. Their ancient traditions and economy depended on the breeding and herding of stock across the vast steppes of central Asia, and their independent, nomadic way of life was anathema to the Soviets. Nominally Muslim, the Kazakhs and their culture owed as much to shamanism and paganism as they did to Islam. Seven-year-old Shayakhmetov and his mother and sisters were left to fend for themselves after his father was branded a "kulak" (well-off peasant and thus class enemy), stripped of his possessions, and sent to a prison camp where he died