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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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies ;
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Call Number: DS501
- 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.