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Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan Paperback – November 15, 2021

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Artemy Kalinovsky's Laboratory of Socialist Development investigates the Soviet effort to make promises of decolonization a reality by looking at the politics and practices of economic development in central Asia between World War II and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Focusing on the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, Kalinovsky places the Soviet development of central Asia in a global context.

Connecting high politics and intellectual debates with the life histories and experiences of peasants, workers, scholars, and engineers, Laboratory of Socialist Development shows how these men and women negotiated Soviet economic and cultural projects in the decades following Stalin's death. Kalinovsky's book investigates how people experienced new cities, the transformation of rural life, and the building of the world's tallest dam. Kalinovsky connects these local and individual moments to the broader context of the Cold War, shedding new light on how paradigms of development change over time. Throughout the book, he offers comparisons with experiences in countries such as India, Iran, and Afghanistan, and considers the role of intermediaries who went to those countries as part of the Soviet effort to spread its vision of modernity to the postcolonial world.

Laboratory of Socialist Development offers a new way to think about the post-war Soviet Union, the relationship between Moscow and its internal periphery, and the interaction between Cold War politics and domestic development. Kalinovsky's innovative research pushes readers to consider the similarities between socialist development and its more familiar capitalist version.

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Laboratory of Socialist Development grapples with how universal ideas were negotiated locally and ultimately reshaped. Throughout the book, Kalinovsky demonstrates how the modernizing paradigm changed, as large-scale investment failed to yield the hoped for result for both European and Soviet modernizers, who sought to recreate European style modernity in the Third World and Central Asia.

Europe Now

Laboratory of Socialist Development leaves a certain nostaliga for the more hopeful times of the Soviet 1960s and early 1970s. The book's mediations are wide-ranging and fascinating.

Russian Review

This book is not only highly informative to readers familiar with the Soviet realm, but its references to 'modernisation' and 'development' projects around the world also make the book relevant to readers not familiar with the context of Tajikistan. Kalinovsky offers a very rich and multidimensional account of the way in which Tajikistan was developed under Soviet rule.

Inner Asia

A pleasure to read, and it has given me the rare opportunity to write a review in which praise does not have to be accompanied by criticism. Scholars in several different fields will likewise read this book with profit.

Central Asian Affairs

A towering achievement. It is by far the best existing study of the Soviet approach to development at home.

H-Diplo

Historians in many fields will appreciate the strength of this book for Kalinovsky's respect for oral histories and memoirs, his close attention to international and domestic political intrigues, and his concern with the less closely studied latter half of the Soviet era in Central Asia... This is a book I would be pleased to assign in any level of undergraduate and graduate history class.

American Historical Review

Its major merit [is] to inscribe Central Asian and Soviet history into the broader post-war and post-colonial history of development. It will provide inspiration and food for thought for further considerations about what socialist development was... Besides, the book provides the first coherent political, social, and intellectual history of Soviet Tajikistan and is thus an important contribution to Central Asian studies.

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Artemy Kalinovsky has achieved what other scholars have only talked about: using development to link international, domestic political, and social history. Laboratory of Socialist Development shows how Soviet Tajikistan developed, and what that meant for Tajiks, for the Soviet Union, and for the Cold War. A true tour de force.

-- David C. Engerman, Ottilie Springer Professor of History, Brandeis University

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cornell University Press (November 15, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501761722
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501761720
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.88 x 9 inches
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Artemy Kalinovsky is Professor of Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet Studies at Temple University. He earned his BA from the George Washington University and his MA and PhD from the London School of Economics, after which he spent a decade teaching at the University of Amsterdam. His first book was A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Harvard University Press, 2011). His second book, Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan (Cornell University Press, 2018), won the Davis and Hewett prizes from the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. He is currently working on a European Research Council funded project that studies the legacies of socialist development in contemporary Central Asia to examine entanglements between socialist and capitalist development approaches in the late 20th century.

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