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Uzbekistan's Soviet Cotton: How Cotton Conquered a Nation
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the monumental shift in Uzbekistan's economy and environment under Soviet rule, focusing on the cotton monoculture that transformed the region. They discuss the central planning under Joseph Stalin, the creation of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic in 1924, and the forced collectivization that destroyed traditional farming. The hosts delve into the work of the All-Union Institute of Plant Industry (VIR) botanist Nikolai Vavilov, who studied the region's agricultural diversity, and contrast it with the later devastating focus on a single…
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