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Tajikistan
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The collectivization of agriculture was implemented on a limited scale
in Tajikistan between 1927 and 1929, and much more aggressively between
1930 and 1934. The objective of Soviet agricultural policy was to expand
the extent of cotton cultivation in Tajikistan as a whole, with particular
emphasis on the southern part of the republic. The process included
violence against peasants, substantial expansion of the irrigation
network, and forcible resettlement of mountain people and people from
Uzbekistan in the lowlands. Many peasants in Tajikistan fought forced
collectivization, reviving the Basmachi movement in upland enclaves
between 1930 and 1936. The interwar years also saw small-scale industrial
development in the republic (see Industry, this ch.).
Data as of March 1996
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