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Soviet Cotton Campaigns and Central Asian Production (1928–1960)

Soviet Cotton Campaigns and Central Asian Production (1928–1960)

  1. First Five-Year Plan targets cotton self-sufficiency

    Labels: First Five-Year, USSR

  2. Collectivization accelerates and reshapes farm production

    Labels: Collectivization, kolkhoz

  3. Kazakh famine shows high costs of forced change

    Labels: Kazakh Famine, Kazakhstan

  4. Vakhsh Valley irrigation begins expanding cotton in Tajikistan

    Labels: Vakhsh Valley, Tajikistan

  5. 1930s canal building expands irrigated cotton land

    Labels: Irrigation Works, Central Asia

  6. Great Fergana Canal built to supply Uzbekistan’s cotton

    Labels: Great Fergana, Fergana Valley

  7. Northern and Southern Fergana canals extend the system

    Labels: Fergana Canals, Fergana Valley

  8. Irrigation expansion turns “white gold” into a core export

    Labels: White Gold, Soviet Exports

  9. Construction begins on Tajikistan’s Kayrakkum Dam

    Labels: Kayrakkum Dam, Syr Darya

  10. Karakum Canal starts diverting Amu Darya water

    Labels: Karakum Canal, Amu Darya

  11. Karakum Canal completed, boosting irrigated agriculture

    Labels: Karakum Canal, Irrigation Network

  12. Kayrakkum Dam opens, strengthening regulated irrigation supply

    Labels: Kayrakkum Dam, Reservoir

  13. Sharof Rashidov becomes party leader in Uzbekistan

    Labels: Sharof Rashidov, Uzbek Communist

  14. Late-1950s irrigation drives deepen long-term water dependence

    Labels: Irrigation Expansion, Central Asia