Laboratory of socialist development : Cold War politics and decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan / Artemy M. Kalinovsky.
"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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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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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.