Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan /

In the mid-1920s, Uzbekistan's countryside experienced a 'land reform', which aimed at solving rural poverty and satisfying radical fringes among peasants and Party, while sustaining agricultural output, especially for cotton. This book analyses the decision-making process underpinnin...

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Main Author: Penati, Beatrice (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies ; 31.

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505 0 |t Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Maps, Figures, Charts, and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction --  1 A Contested Field --  2 Between Land Organization and Class Struggle --  3 Economic Growth and State-Building --  4 Redistributive Agrarian Reform --  5 A Note on Sources -- 1 The Collapse of Central Asian Agriculture (1915-1921) --  1 Land, Water, and People --  2 Between War and Revolution --  3 Economic Effects of the Civil War and Basmachi Struggle --  4 Restoring the Grain-Cotton Nexus -- 2 An Unfinished Reform (1921-1924) --  1 Between 'Toiling Land Usage' and Decolonization --  2 A 'Fundamental Land Law' po-turkestanski? --  3 Shifting Ground: Ruling Land Organization --  4 Water Legislation: Controversial Points -- 3 Bolsheviks as Firemen (1924-1925) --  1 Peasant Living Standards in the First Half of the 1920s --  2 Land Crisis? Land Squatting and Invasions between 1924 and 1925 --  3 An Embarrassed Chain of Command --  4 'We Need to Create an Illusion' --  5 Decreeing the Reform --  6 The Perils of Factionalism -- 4 The First Wave: Samarkand, Tashkent, and Fergana (1925-1926) --  1 The Soviets Discover the Countryside --  2 Between 'Land Commissions' and the Narkomzem --  3 The Party and the Koshchi Union --  4 Mobilising for (and against) the Reform --  5 The Reform in Action --  6 Certificates, Implements, and Livestock -- 5 Results and Immediate Impact of the Reform --  1 'Victims' and Beneficiaries --  2 The Land Stock and Its Destiny --  3 The Cotton Sector --  4 Social Effects --  5 Money Matters -- 6 Expanding and Deepening the Reform (1926-1927) --  1 Land Policies in the People's Soviet Republics of Bukhara and Khorezm --  2 Preparing and Executing the Reform in the Zeravshan Province --  3 Grappling with chairikërstvo, Protecting Labour --  4 Re-capturing the Peasantry: Credit and Co-operatives --  5 The Cotton Procurement Mechanism -- 7 Promised Land: New and Restored Irrigation in the 1920s --  1 The Rush to Irrigate --  2 Drying Marshes and Reshuffling Villages in the Samarkand Province --  3 New Irrigation in Fergana --  4 Sand Storms and Immigration: the Zeravshan Province --  5 Land Reform vs. Irrigation? Dal'verzin and the Hungry Steppe --  6 Political Consequences --  7 The Limits of Modernisation: Water Duties, Labour, and Technology -- 8 The Cultivation of Class Struggle (1927-1929) --  1 Land Reform and Class Ascription --  2 'There Are No pomeshchiki in Uzbekistan' --  3 Wrapping Up the Land Reform: the dolikvidatsia --  4 The Rest of Uzbekistan Catches Up -- 9 'Land Organization' Hijacked (1927-1930) --  1 Plans and Cotton Plans --  2 'Wholesale Land Organization' after the Land Reform --  3 The Assaka 'Experimental District' --  4 The Experiment Spills Over --  5 New Irrigation, Resettlement, and State Farms in Dal'verzin --  6 Reconsidering pereselenie --  7 Toward Wholesale Collectivization -- Conclusion --  1 A Summary --  2 Cotton Duties and Land Rights --  3 Citizenship and Subalternity --  4 Development and Mobilisation -- Archives -- Bibliography. 
520 |a In the mid-1920s, Uzbekistan's countryside experienced a 'land reform', which aimed at solving rural poverty and satisfying radical fringes among peasants and Party, while sustaining agricultural output, especially for cotton. This book analyses the decision-making process underpinning the reform, its implementation, and economic and social effects. The reform must be understood against the background of the wreckage caused by war and revolution, and linked to subsequent policies of 'land organisation' and regime-sponsored 'class struggle'. Overall, this is the first comprehensive account of early Soviet policy in Central Asia's agricultural heartland, encompassing land rights, irrigation, credit, resettlement, and the co-operative system. 
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