"The book brings the largely unknown story of the Kazakh famine of 1930-33 to light, using this case study to overturn several assumptions about violence, modernization, and nation-making under Stalin"-- Provided by publisher.

The steppe and the sown : peasants, nomads and the transformation of the Kazakh steppe, 1896-1921 -- Can you get to socialism by camel? : The fate of pastoral nomadism in Soviet Kazakhstan, 1921-1928 -- Kazakhstan's "little October" : the campaign against Kazakh elites, 1928 -- Nomads under siege : Kazakhstan and the launch of forced collectivization -- Violence, flight and hunger : the Sino-Kazakh border and the Kazakh famine -- Kazakhstan and the politics of hunger, 1931-1934.