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Blogs in February 2020

A Kazakh Teacher’s Story: Surviving the Silent Steppe 19th February 2020

Beginning where the Silent Steppe left off, it is early 1945, and the author, Shayakhmetov, still recuperating from serious war injuries, has travelled thousands of miles back to his village on the eastern Kazakhstan steppe. There is joy at...

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The Silent Steppe: the Story of a Kazakh Nomad under Stalin 19th February 2020

If you read just 1 book about Kazakhstan, let it be this one. While the devastating famine in Ukraine is fairly well-known, the death and displacement of millions of Kazakhs in the same period of Stalin’s reign is almost...

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