Russian Colonization and the Genesis of Kazak National Consciousness (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333921425)

STEVE SABOL received his undergraduate degree from Elon College where he first became interested in Russian/Soviet studies, and his PhD from Georgia State University in 1998. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Russian and Central Asian History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has lived and worked several years in Almaty, Kazakstan, both as Regional Director of the Kazak-American Studies Centre, and as a researcher in the Kazak State National Archives and libraries. He has travelled widely throughout the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. Recently, he co-edited a special issue of the journal Nationalities Papers devoted to Kazakstan.