Bloody Turgai: Land, Labor, and Violence in Russia’s Steppe, 1860-1916

FAIN: FT-291651-23

Danielle Michelle Ross
Utah State University (Logan, UT 84322-1400)

Research and writing leading to a monograph on the Kazakhs of Turgai District from the 1860s to 1917. 

Bloody Turgai: Land, Labor, and Violence in Russia’s Steppe, 1860–1916 will use Kazakh- and Russian-language archival records and community historical records to examine how Russian colonial land policies and the rapid integration of the Kazakh steppe into the global economy caused social change and social conflict among the nomadic Kazakhs of Turgai District from the 1860s to 1917. It will situate the Kazakh case within the global histories of indigenous peoples experiencing settler colonialism and integration into capitalist markets in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.