Laboratory of socialist development : Cold War politics and decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan /
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 : with dreams begin responsibilities
- Decolonization, de-Stalinization, and development
- Ayni's children : the making of a Tajik professional elite after Stalin
- The object of development : Central Asian social scientists and the meaning of equality, prosperity, and progress
- The hiding hand : planning, improvization, and the building of the Nurek Dam
- City you can write about : internationalism, social welfare, and urban utopia in Nurek
- Shepherds into builders : making the new Tajik man and woman
- Tractors, power lines, and the welfare state : the contradictions of the cotton economy and technological innovation
- A torch lighting the way to progress and civilization : Soviet Central Asia as a model of development
- Rethinking development in the era of glasnost : environmentalism, nationalism, and protest
- Conclusion : a dream deferred.