- Asia
Khrushchev's Virgin Lands campaign
Nikita Khrushchev's drive to plough up the northern Kazakh steppe for grain brings hundreds of thousands of mostly Slavic settlers, transforming the republic's demography so that Kazakhs become a minority in Kazakhstan.
Era: Soviet Kazakhstan
Sources: History of Kazakhstan · Encyclopædia Britannica, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan: Country Studies · Library of Congress, Federal Research Division
Peoples & Migration in the 1950s
One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 1950s, tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
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- 1954
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- 1954
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.