{"id":47233,"count":8,"description":"There's a reasonable range of books about Kazakhstan in English, a country in Central Asia that became independent in 1991, following the fall of the Soviet Union. Buoyed by its oil wealth, independent Kazakhstan was led by President Nursultan Nazarbayev for nearly 30 years, the percentage of votes he won at each election edging closer and closer to 100 until he resigned and ceded the presidency to a close ally in 2019.\r\n\r\nMeasured by landmass, Kazakhstan is the 9th largest country in the world. Under Stalin, it was the site of a web of concentration camps, as well as being a convenient location for groups to be deported to, such as the Volga Germans, who were sent there <em>en masse<\/em> after <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/hitler-michael-burleigh\/\">Hitler<\/a> invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.\r\n\r\nIn Soviet times, Almaty was the capital of Kazakhstan, and it remains the country's most vibrant city. However, in 1997, the official capital of Kazakhstan was moved more than 1,000 kilometres to a city that is now called Nur-Sultan, after the country's longstanding president.\r\n\r\nBelow are some books about Kazakhstan to help get a grip on its history and current situation:","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/asia\/kazakhstan\/","name":"Kazakhstan","slug":"kazakhstan","taxonomy":"category","parent":5616,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/47233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5616"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=47233"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=47233"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=47233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}