The early Bolsheviks acknowledged the settlement of Russians in northern Kazakhstan as a colonial act by the Russian empire. And in the early days of the Civil war they consciously pursued policy they even called "decolonization" which was a rather radical pursuit of resettlement of ethnic Russians out of Kazakhstan to ensure Kazakh territorial and ethnic sovereignty.
This was basically all but reversed under collectivization, where a population of semi-nomadic pastoralists was forced to sedentarize or flee and the land was appropriated by the state to resettle ethnic Russians there for sedentary agricultural production. A demographic shift that was only very recently overcome in Kazakhstan where now Kazakhs are once again the majority ethnic group.
The Silent Steppe is a biography of a Kazakh during the collectivization campaigns. Also their was a comparative historiography of the Sioux and Kazakhs that covers mostly the Russian empire iirc called "The Touch of Civilization": Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization. I forget where I read about Soviet decolonization. I honestly think there's just a wikipedia article about it lol
The early Bolsheviks acknowledged the settlement of Russians in northern Kazakhstan as a colonial act by the Russian empire. And in the early days of the Civil war they consciously pursued policy they even called "decolonization" which was a rather radical pursuit of resettlement of ethnic Russians out of Kazakhstan to ensure Kazakh territorial and ethnic sovereignty.
This was basically all but reversed under collectivization, where a population of semi-nomadic pastoralists was forced to sedentarize or flee and the land was appropriated by the state to resettle ethnic Russians there for sedentary agricultural production. A demographic shift that was only very recently overcome in Kazakhstan where now Kazakhs are once again the majority ethnic group.
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The Silent Steppe is a biography of a Kazakh during the collectivization campaigns. Also their was a comparative historiography of the Sioux and Kazakhs that covers mostly the Russian empire iirc called "The Touch of Civilization": Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization. I forget where I read about Soviet decolonization. I honestly think there's just a wikipedia article about it lol
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https://de1lib.org/book/934245/89d218
There's the Silent Steppe. Can't find the other one except on JSTOR unfortunately.
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That website has like every book ever btw. Highly recommend it.
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