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Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible Eurasian boundaries for the subregion. Soviet Central Asia (Russian: Советская Средняя Азия, romanized: Sovetskaya Srednyaya Aziya) was the part of Central Asia administered by the Russian SFSR and then the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1991, when the Central Asian republics declared independence.
The book discusses major water projects implemented and proposed during the Russian Empire and Soviet Union in Central Asia. Pipe Dreams received acclaim from critics, who recognized it as a substantial contribution to the environmental history of Central Asia. The book is based on Peterson's PhD dissertation written at Harvard University. [1]
The Russians in Central Asia History Today. March 1956, 6#3 pp 172–180. Wheeler, Geoffrey. The modern history of Soviet Central Asia (1964). online free to borrow; Williams, Beryl. "Approach to the Second Afghan War: Central Asia during the Great Eastern Crisis, 1875–1878." 'International History Review 2.2 (1980): 216–238.
The Soviet Union and then Russia have continued these studies with the other regional powers weighing the costs and benefits of turning Siberia's rivers back to the south and using the redirected water in Russia and Central Asian countries plus neighbouring regions of China for agriculture, household and industrial use, and perhaps also for ...
Central Asian Review was a journal of Central Asian studies published from 1953 to 1968. A 1954 review in Soviet Studies deemed that its work on Soviet Central Asia "performs an invaluable service and does it well," [1] while more recent scholarship notes that it "gave reports on a wide variety of Central Asian topics gleaned from the Soviet press with often favourable comment."
The final phase of Soviet consolidation came with the formal incorporation of Central Asian territories into the USSR. By 1924, the Soviet government had established the Central Asian Soviet Republics, including Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, effectively integrating them into the Soviet system. [17]
The Chorasmian Archaeological-Ethnographic Expedition of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (also known as Choresmian Expedition, Khorezmian Expedition) explored a large area of Central Asia, where between 1937 and 1991 its members found and recorded almost a thousand archaeological sites. It was the biggest and longest-lasting of all ...
The Central Asian railroad network was designed primarily with the needs of former Soviet Union planners in mind. The entire Soviet railways system was built with Moscow at its core. Consequently, Central Asian railroads are mainly oriented north-south and (now-existing) borders were disregarded in planning.