Corruption Scandal That Shook the USSR - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video in on the Uzbek Cotton Scandal, the corruption affair that shook the USSR in the 1980s.

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Sources:
Riccardo Mario Cucciolla, “Legitimation Through Self-Victimization: The Uzbek Cotton Affair and its Repression Narrative,” Cahiers du Monde Russe, Vol.58, No.4 (2017)
Gregory Gleason, “Fealty and Loyalty: Informal Authority Structures in Soviet Asia,” Soviet Studies, Vol.43, No.4 (1991)
Riccardo Mario Cucciolla, “Sharaf Rashidov and the international dimensions of Soviet Uzbekistan,” Central Asian Survey, Vol.39, No.2 (2020)
William A. Clark, “Crime and Punishment in Soviet Officialdom, 1965-90,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol.45, No.2 (1993)
Derek Edward Peterson, “When a Pound Weighed a Ton: The Cotton Scandal and Uzbek National Consciousness,” Ohio State University, Thesis (2013)
Neil Melvin, Uzbekistan: Transition to Authoritarianism on the Silk Road (Harwood Academic, 2000)
Lindt, Margarita, “How cotton led to the collapse of the Soviet Union,” Russia Beyond (2017), https://www.rbth.com/arts/history/201...
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