Research project
Financial flows to/from Soviet Central Asia, 1950-1990
The economic history of Soviet development practices in Central Asia remains controversial and dominated by the view that Soviet development policy was wasteful and inefficient in the periphery. Challenging the established view of Soviet largesse and largely undirected and untracked “subsidies” to Central Asian republics, this subproject argues for a close and forensic reconstruction of financial flows to and from Soviet Central Asian republics in the postwar period, focusing on budget transfers to the republics and uncounted tax and export revenue accrued from the republics’ production of raw materials. Particular focus will be placed on the republics of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, all regions of raw materials production and limited industrialization. Figures for these republics, when contextualized into the larger Soviet financial transfer system, will help to demonstrate the intentionality of real imperial financial flows, as well as the policy goals they were directed towards.
- Duration
- 2024 - 2030
- Contact
- Liesbeth Claes
- Funding
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Starting Grant NWO
