E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band Band 008, 536 Seiten
Reihe: Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte Osteuropas / Cultural and Social History of Eastern Europe
Obertreis Imperial Desert Dreams
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-8470-0786-9
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Cotton Growing and Irrigation in Central Asia, 1860–1991
E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band Band 008, 536 Seiten
Reihe: Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte Osteuropas / Cultural and Social History of Eastern Europe
ISBN: 978-3-8470-0786-9
Verlag: V&R unipress
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection
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- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Unternehmensgeschichte, Einzelne Branchen und Unternehmer
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
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1;Title Page;4
2;Copyright;5
3;Table of Contents;8
4;Body;12
5;Acknowledgements;12
6;Introduction;16
6.1;People, Geography, and Agriculture;26
6.2;Concepts, Approaches, and Questions;34
6.3;Sources, Languages, and Transliteration;48
7;I. Russian Colonial Rule in Turkestan, 1860–1917;50
7.1;The Motivation for the Conquest;52
7.2;The “Blossoming Oases”;57
7.3;A Cotton Fever;61
7.4;Local “Customs” and Local Knowledge;66
7.5;Engineers' Fantasies;77
7.6;The Ancient Riverbed of the Amu Darya;82
7.7;The Opening Up of the Hungry Steppe;86
7.8;The “Obituary List” of Failures and Moral Superiority;90
7.9;The Striving for “Cotton Autonomy”;97
7.10;The Legal Framework and Scepticism about “Capitalism”;104
7.11;The Ministry of Agriculture and the Turkestan Agricultural Society;116
7.12;The Taming of Nature through Infrastructure, 1910–1914;122
7.13;The First World War;131
7.14;Conclusion;133
8;II. Soviet Nation-Building and Stalinism, 1917–1944;140
8.1;The Advent of the Bolsheviks;141
8.2;Georgii K. Rizenkampf and his Cotton and Irrigation Program;148
8.3;“National Delimitation” and the “Land-Water Reform”;157
8.4;The Collectivization of Agriculture and the First Five-Year Plan;164
8.5;The Attack on “Bourgeois Specialists”;172
8.6;Haste, Coercion, and Incentives: Cotton Growing in the 1930s;179
8.7;Progressive Methods in Agriculture and the Experience of the Peasants;189
8.8;Terror;198
8.9;Stagnation in Irrigation Construction and Management;202
8.10;Scientific Institutes and the Training of (Indigenous) Specialists;207
8.11;“People's Construction”;214
8.12;The All-Union Agricultural Exhibition of 1939 and the Republics' National Designs;223
8.13;The Second World War;231
8.14;Conclusion;237
9;III. High Modernism in Central Asia, 1945–1969;246
9.1;Stalinism and Cotton Growing after the War;249
9.2;Agricultural Politics after Stalin;253
9.3;The Educational Boom and the Training of Indigenous Experts;265
9.4;The Hungry Steppe: a Microstudy;274
9.4.1;The New Zone;281
9.4.2;The Memoirs of the “Hungrysteppers”;287
9.4.3;Akop Sarkisov and the Recruitment of Cadres;290
9.4.4;Leadership Styles in the “Hungry Steppe Construction Trust”;302
9.4.5;Personal Networks: from Yangier to Tashkent to Moscow;305
9.4.6;Central Asians and the Druzhba narodov;315
9.4.7;“Teachers and Educators”;320
9.5;The “River of Happiness” – the Karakum Canal;322
9.6;The Drainage Problem;330
9.7;The Backwardness of the Others;335
9.8;“Engineerization”, “Chemicalization”, and “Mechanization”;340
9.9;Local Knowledge;357
9.10;“Irrational” Water Usage: the 1960s;360
9.11;Conclusion;367
10;IV. A Time of Crisis, 1970–1991;372
10.1;The Water Crisis;375
10.2;The Diversion of Siberian Rivers as a Solution to the Problem;383
10.3;The Cotton Crisis;388
10.4;The Individual Experience;391
10.5;Nature Protection and De-Stalinization;393
10.6;The Society for the Protection of Nature;398
10.7;An Ecocritique Emerges;401
10.8;The Cotton Scandal;411
10.9;Politics and Opposition during Perestroika;418
10.10;Debates in the Press and Environmental Scandals: Health;427
10.11;The Diversion Debate;429
10.12;The Vodniki under Fire;434
10.13;The Reaction of the Authorities;443
10.14;The Growth of Ethnic Conflict;447
10.15;Chemicals in Agriculture;448
10.16;Cotton and National Pride;451
10.17;A Feeling of Loss and Despair;455
10.18;Conclusion;458
11;Conclusion;464
11.1;High Modernism;464
11.2;Continuities between the Tsarist and Soviet Periods;471
11.3;Indigenization and the Cotton Contract;474
11.4;The Crisis of Soviet Modernity and Environmental Aspects;479
11.5;Central Asia Post-Soviet;483
12;Glossary;492
13;List of Maps and Illustrations;496
14;Bibliography;500
15;Index;528