The present study deals with varied impressions about the Steppe domain, taking
into account the interconnected aspects of Steppe history, highlighting features
of Kazakh and Siberian domains that have relevance outside the Russian mold. The
purpose has been to integrate the intertwined histories of the two domains and
indicate continuities and discontinuities of two overlapping strands of
history-writing, Soviet and post-Soviet. This account is concerned with both
Soviet and post-Soviet approaches, the former expressing a predictable set of
opinions, the latter questioning them. The stereotypical idea of the Steppe as a
region that was the citadel of nomadic conquerors and barbaric raiders and
distanced from the locus of