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)

Format: eBook

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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Call Number: DS501

Table of Contents:
  • 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.