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Abstract
Based on research in Russian and Kazakhstani archives, this article investigates connections between policies of peasant colonization, the sedentarization of pastoral nomadic peoples, and the economic regionalization of the USSR. After analysing debates from the 1920s, and limited sedentarization among Kazakhs and Kyrgyz during collectivization, the article argues that only by focusing on the economic regionalization of Central Asia, which placed the Kazakhs and the Kyrgyz in two different economic regions with dissimilar priorities, is it possible to explain the radically different outcomes of early Stalinist policies for similar pastoral peoples. The increased central control brought by the Stalinist Great Turn created a new spatial hierarchy directly connecting the bottom of the Soviet social and spatial pyramid, the livestock-breeding regions, to its top, the elite regime cities. The exclusion of the Kyrgyz ASSR from the massive livestock procurements that fed the Soviet political and industrial centres, and which led to the great famine in Kazakhstan (1931–33), can be explained by early Stalinist economic regionalization.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 73-92 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Central Asian Survey |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 15 Sept 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2016 Southseries Inc.
Keywords
- Stalinism
- colonization
- pastoral nomads
- regionalization
- sedentarization
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Water Management and the Aral Sea Crisis: State, Environment and Society in Soviet Central Asia (供水管理與鹹海危機:蘇維埃時期中亞地區內國家、環境及社會之間的互為關係)
PIANCIOLA, N. (PI)
Research Grants Council (HKSAR)
1/01/13 → 31/12/15
Project: Grant Research