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Thesis ID: CBB795090986

Science and the Steppe: Agronomists, Nomads, and the Settler Colony on the Kazakh Steppe, 1881-1917 (2019)

Seitz, John Britton (Author)
Andrews, James T. (Advisor)

Iowa State University
Andrews, James T.
Publication date: 2019
Language: English

URI: http://search.proquest.com/docview/2365282368/abstract/DCD5A42DC71848B5PQ/105

Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 299

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Colonialism Science and society Indigenous peoples; indigeneity Agronomy Agriculture 20th century, early 19th century Russia Kazakhstan

In the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, Russian officials and scientists undertook a project of exploiting the Kazakh Steppe to turn it into an agricultural breadbasket. However, this project ran into difficulties both among the indigenous nomadic Kazakh population and with the challenges of farming in a new environment. Therefore, officials and scientists turned to another group to attempt to transform the steppe, peasant settlers from European Russia. While they did not fully overcome the challenges and achieve their most extreme visions for the steppe, this process that included demographic, scientific, and economic changes would have far reaching affects on the story of Kazakhstan down to the present day.

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