sentences:  Ironically, the Soviet institutions designed to destroy clans actually wound up making them stronger.The collectivization and “nationalities” policies of the 1920s and 1930s were meant to modernize clans out of existence by turning wandering herdspeople into sedentary Soviet subjects and overwhelming old clan affiliations with new and larger “national” identities such as Kyrgyz, Turkmen, or Kazakh.However, clan members adapted and survived.