Imperial Desert Dreams
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Imperial Desert Dreams

Cotton Growing and Irrigation in Central Asia, 1860–1991

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  2. English
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Imperial Desert Dreams

Cotton Growing and Irrigation in Central Asia, 1860–1991

About this book

Beamte, Ingenieure und Wissenschaftler des Russischen Reiches und spĂ€ter der Sowjetunion planten die Ausweitung und Modernisierung der BewĂ€sserungssysteme und des Baumwollanbaus in Zentralasien. Die Studie, die das heutige Usbekistan und Turkmenistan untersucht, betont die diskursiven und politischen KontinuitĂ€ten ĂŒber die ZĂ€sur von 1917 hinweg. Einer der zentralen Topoi war die Umwandlung von â€ștotenâ€č Steppen und WĂŒsten in â€șblĂŒhende Oasenâ€č. Der high modernism erreichte seinen Höhepunkt in den Nachkriegsjahrzehnten. Seit den 1970er Jahren entwickelte sich eine Öko-Kritik an der sowjetischen Modernisierung, die in der Perestrojkazeit an Fahrt aufnahm. Letztendlich trugen die ökologischen und ökonomischen sowie sozialen Folgewirkungen der wachstumsfixierten Modernisierung zum Zusammenbruch des kommunistischen Regimes bei.Officials, engineers and scientists in the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union envisaged the expansion and modernization of irrigation systems and cotton growing in Central Asia. Focusing on the region of today's Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, this book highlights the continuities in discourse and policies beyond the historical divide of 1917. One of the central topoi was the transformation of 'dead' lands into 'blossoming oases'. High modernism policies hit their peak in the post-war decades. From the 1970s, an ecological critique evolved which gained momentum in the Perestroika period. Ultimately, the grave ecological, economic and social consequences of the growth-fixated modernization contributed to the downfall of the Communist regime.

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Information

Publisher
V&R Unipress
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9783847107866
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9783847007869

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Body
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. I. Russian Colonial Rule in Turkestan, 1860–1917
  8. II. Soviet Nation-Building and Stalinism, 1917–1944
  9. III. High Modernism in Central Asia, 1945–1969
  10. IV. A Time of Crisis, 1970–1991
  11. Conclusion
  12. Glossary
  13. List of Maps and Illustrations
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index

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