Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan - Didar Kassymova, Zhanat Kundakbayeva, Ustina Markus - Google Books

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Kazakhstan is in some ways a very old nation dating back to the Kazakh Khanate of 1458, but it dramatically transformed within the Russian Empire and even more so during the period when it was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Since 1991 it…