Laboratory of socialist development : Cold War politics and decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan /

Laboratory of socialist development : Cold War politics and decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan / Artemy M. Kalinovsky.

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"Focusing on the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, this book places the Soviet development of Central Asia, and the Soviet hope for communism's bringing prosperity to a supposedly backward area, in global context"--

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Main Author: Kalinovsky, Artemy M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Economic development > Tajikistan > History > 20th century.
Communism and society > History > 20th century.
Elite (Social sciences) > Tajikistan > History > 20th century.
Central-local government relations > Tajikistan > History > 20th century.
Central-local government relations.
Communism and society.
Economic development.
Elite (Social sciences)
Politics and government.
Tajikistan > Politics and government > 20th century.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985.
Soviet Union.
Tajikistan.
Tadschikistan.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the promise of development
  • Decolonization, de-Stalinization, and development
  • Ayni's children, or making a Tajik-Soviet intelligentsia
  • Defining development
  • Plans, gifts, and obligations
  • Nurek, "a city you can write about"
  • Shepherds into builders
  • The countryside electrified
  • "A torch lighting the way to progress and civilization"
  • The poorest republic
  • Conclusion : a dream deferred.

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