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" Science and the Steppe: Agronomists, Nomads, and the Settler Colony on the Kazakh Steppe, 1881-1917 "
Seitz, John Britton
Andrews, James T.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1052938
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TL52055
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Seitz, John Britton
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Science and the Steppe: Agronomists, Nomads, and the Settler Colony on the Kazakh Steppe, 1881-1917\ Seitz, John BrittonAndrews, James T.
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Iowa State University
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2019
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Ph.D.
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2019
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299 p.
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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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Agriculture
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Russian history
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Science history
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Andrews, James T.
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Iowa State University
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