The Kazakhs Maratha Olcott

By:

Maratha Olcott

Contributor(s):

Olcott, Martha Brill

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Hoover Institution Press 1995 StanfordEdition: 1st edDescription: xxiii, 341 p., 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : maps ; 23 cmISBN:

9780817983826

Subject(s):

Security

DDC classification:

958.45 OLC

Summary: Martha Brill Olcott chronicles the pageant of Kazakh history as it marches across the vast steppes of Central Asia. She details the major events that have shaped the character of this Islamic nation of Turkic speaking people, which exists as a cultural and ethnic minority within the political boundaries of the Soviet Union. The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic encompasses an area of more than one million square miles, shares a long and strategic border with China, is larger than Western Europe, and has a population that is the fourth largest in the Soviet Union. Professor Olcott highlights the critical economic and political problems that confront the seven million people of the Kazakh nation. -- from back cover.

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Martha Brill Olcott chronicles the pageant of Kazakh history as it marches across the vast steppes of Central Asia. She details the major events that have shaped the character of this Islamic nation of Turkic speaking people, which exists as a cultural and ethnic minority within the political boundaries of the Soviet Union. The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic encompasses an area of more than one million square miles, shares a long and strategic border with China, is larger than Western Europe, and has a population that is the fourth largest in the Soviet Union. Professor Olcott highlights the critical economic and political problems that confront the seven million people of the Kazakh nation. -- from back cover.

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