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b'A People and Country Decimated
Guest: Sarah Cameron, associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park, author of "The Hungry Steppe: \\xa0Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhsta"
One of the lesser-known evils of the Stalinist Regime was the forced resettlement of Kazakh nomads in an effort to collectivize farming, a policy that resulted in the deaths of over 1.5 million people. Until recently, the Kazakh famine and its repercussions were largely unknown to the West and the Republic of Kazakstan itself.
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Central Asia
Guest: Shoshana Keller, Professor of History at Hamilton College and author of "Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence"
Stalin ordered the nomadic peoples of Central Asia to settle down and become members of Soviet states, and the five "-stans" are still reeling from that dramatic change today. But in some ways, residents have come to relish their modern identities.'