Kazakhstan

Books set in or about Kazakhstan

Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared
The Dead Lake
The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years
Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
The Dead Wander in the Desert
Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
The Silent Steppe: The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin
Amanat: Women’s Writing from Kazakhstan
Half a World Away
To Hell with Poets
Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen
The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan
Woman In Exile: My Life In Kazakhstan
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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There was no such thing as Kazakhstan. It was just a chunk of Soviet Union. I had to build a country, to establish an army, our own police, our internal life, everything from roads to the constitution. I had to change the minds of the people 180 degrees, from totalitarian regime to freedom, from state property to private property. Nobody wanted to understand that. My comrades from the communist party were against me. I had to train myself too... I wasn't raised with democracy and freedom of spe ...more
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