I had a dream one night. In my dream an old man in skins and leather was drinking tea and sitting beside a fire. He told me this story. His name was Kazak and t

" ... an amusing account of [the author's] summer as an 'expat wife' in the ex-Soviet country of Kazakhstan. ... It comprises her experience of the culture and

The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1930–33. More than 1.5 million people perished in this

This compete history of one of the largest non-Slavic ethnic groups charts it from its emergence in the mid-fifteenth century to the present. Olcott details the

Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West. Strategically located in the heart of Central Asia, sandwiched