The Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin by Mukhamet Shayakhmetov, Jan Butler

The Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin

Mukhamet Shayakhmetov, Jan Butler

345 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir informative reflective sad slow-paced
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This is a first-hand account of the genocide of the Kazakh nomads in the 1920s and 30s. Nominally Muslim, the Kazakhs and their culture owed as much to shamanism and paganism as they did to Islam. Their ancient traditions and economy depended on t...

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informative 100%
reflective 83%
sad 83%
dark 50%
emotional 50%
adventurous 33%
challenging 33%
inspiring 16%
tense 16%

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