TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kalinovsky,Artemy M.
TI  - Laboratory of socialist development: Cold War politics and decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan 
SN  - 9781501715587
AV  - DK928.86 .K35 2018
U1  - 958.608/5 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Tajikistan
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Communism and society
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - Central-local government relations
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Développement économique
KW  - Tadjikistan
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Communisme et société
KW  - Élite (Sciences sociales)
KW  - Relations gouvernement central-collectivités locales
KW  - Livres numériques
KW  - e-books
KW  - aat
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Asia
KW  - Central Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - 1953-1985
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - URSS
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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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ER  -