Artemy M. Kalinovsky

Laboratory of Socialist Development

Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan

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Produktbeschreibung

Artemy Kalinovsky's Laboratory of Socialist Development investigates the Soviet effort to make promises of decolonization a reality by looking at the politics and practices of economic development in central Asia between World War II and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Focusing on the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, Kalinovsky places the...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781501761720
• ISBN-10: 1501761722
• Artikelnr.: 62289532

Autorenporträt

Artemy M. Kalinovsky is Professor of Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Studies at Temple University and the Principal Investigator of the ERC funded project Building a Better Tomorrow: Development Knowledge and Practice in Central Asia and Beyond, based at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Laboratory of Socialist Development and A Long Goodbye . He has co-edited a number of volumes on Soviet and Cold War history, including The End of the Cold War and the Third World, with Sergey Radchenko, and, most recently, Alternative Globalizations, with James Mark and Steffi Marung.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Promise of Development
1. Decolonization, De-Stalinization, and Development
2. Ayni's Children, or Making a Tajik-Soviet Intelligentsia
3. Defining Development
4. Plans, Gifts, and Obligations
5. Nurek, "A City You Can Write About"
6. Shepherds into Builders
7. The Countryside Electrified
8. "A Torch Lighting the Way to Progress and Civilization"
9. The Poorest Republic
Conclusion: A Dream Deferred