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

Description

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 80%
sad 80%
adventurous 40%
dark 40%
emotional 40%
challenging 20%
inspiring 20%
tense 20%

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slow 60%
medium 40%

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