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Tractors, Power Lines, and the Welfare State: The Contradictions of Soviet Development in Post-World War II Tajikistan

Asiatische Studien, 2015-09, Vol.69 (3), p.563-592 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2015 ;ISSN: 0004-4717 ;EISSN: 2235-5871 ;DOI: 10.1515/asia-2015-1008

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  • Title:
    Tractors, Power Lines, and the Welfare State: The Contradictions of Soviet Development in Post-World War II Tajikistan
  • Author: Kalinovsky, Artemy M.
  • Subjects: development ; electrification ; modernization ; resettlement ; welfare-state
  • Is Part Of: Asiatische Studien, 2015-09, Vol.69 (3), p.563-592
  • Description: This article considers the Soviet campaign to transform the Tajik countryside by mechanizing agricultural production and bringing the welfare state to the villages in light of broader 20th century rural development efforts. It begins by examining the attempt to mechanize agriculture and electrify the Tajik countryside through the eyes of the officials charged with implementing these technologies. Problems with how these technologies were introduced meant that while cotton output expanded, it required increasing amount of labor. Turning to the problem of resettlement, the article emphasizes that resettlement was shaped by competition for labor between districts and farm managers. Increasingly, in the Brezhnev era, it also came to be seen as an easier way to fulfill the modernizing imperative and the commitments of the welfare state. Under pressure to ensure access to schools and medical services, officials found it more convenient to move villages from mountain areas to valleys where such services could be more easily provided. At the same time, the demand for agricultural labor stimulated a kind of “involution” in the countryside, where managers had to find ways to keep labor on the farm. To do so, they could offer cash rewards, building materials, and access to private land and fertilizer.
  • Publisher: Bern: De Gruyter
  • Language: English;French;German
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0004-4717
    EISSN: 2235-5871
    DOI: 10.1515/asia-2015-1008
  • Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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