History of International Interdependence II

*Intensive course consists of 13 classes, each 100 minutes long, within the period of June 29, 2026 and August 12, 2026. The following is a tentative schedule: 1. The big picture: becoming familiar with Central Asia 2. Economic conditions in the Russian empire and the Khanates of Central Asia (Turkestan) 3. The Soviet Union and the New Economic Policy 4. Industrialization and urbanization in Central Asia 5. Collectivization and famine in Central Asia 6. The impact of the World War II on Central Asia and demographic change 7. The collapse of the USSR: the 1990s in Central Asia 8. The new political economies of Central Asia and their market transition 9. Institutional legacies and building modern institutions 10. New Uzbekistan: the Third Renaissance – Part I 11. New Uzbekistan: the Third Renaissance – Part II 12. Central Asia Evidence Hub – exploring datasets 13. Student presentations and discussions

Lectures (up to 10 classes) will be the main teaching method, but several classes (up to 5) might be allocated to mid-term and final class discussions, student presentations and practice sessions (this depends on the format of classes we adopt and whether students have access to Stata tools). Attendance of classes and interactive participation will be taken into account for final evaluation.

Evaluation will be made based on regular homework assignments / quiz / attendance (20%) and class work (80%): a research project proposal (40%), a final research paper – including oral presentation (40%).

1.The course will be mainly conducted as a guided discussion; thus it is essential that students have done a substantial amount of reading (research papers will be provided by the instructor) on each subject before each class. Based on the topic of readings each week, relevant guest speakers (expert scholars) could be invited to contribute to the discussion. 2. There could be some adjustments of the course content depending on the students' composition, background and interests. 3. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact the instructor by email.

Readings Books 1.Levi, Scott. The Rise and Fall of Khoqand, 1709-1876: Central Asia in the Global Age. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. 2.Levi, Scott. The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th Century Central Asia. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. 3.Bregel, Yuri. An Historical Atlas of Central Asia. Brill, 2003. 4.Khalid, Adeeb. Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present. Princeton University Press, 2021. 5.Khalid, Adeeb. Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Revolution, and Empire in the Early USSR. Cornell University Press, 2015. 6.North, Douglass. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Cambridge University Press, 1990. 7.Greif, Avner. Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 8.Vambery, Armin. Arminius Vambery, his Life and Adventures. Lettel Books, 2024. 9.Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick. Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan. Cambridge University Press, 2016. 10.Kuran, Timur. The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East. Princeton University Press, 2012. 11.Pamuk, Sevket. Uneven Centuries: Economic Development of Turkey since 1820. Princeton University Press, 2018. 12.Penati, Beatrice. Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan. Brill, 2024. 13.Pomfret, Richard. The Central Asian Economies since Independence. Princeton University Press, 2006. 14.Pomfret, Richard. The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century: Paving a New Silk Road. Princeton University Press, 2019. 15.Mirkasimov, Bakhrom and Richard Pomfret. New Uzbekistan: the Third Renaissance. Routledge, 2024. 16.Gregory, Paul R. Before Command: An Economic History of Russia from Emancipation to the First Five-Year. Princeton University Press, 2014. 17.Davies, R.W., Mark Harrison and S.G. Wheatcroft. The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913-1945. Cambridge University Press, 1994. 18.Mahoney, James and Dietrich Rueschemeyer. Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 19.Gregory, Ian N. and Paul S. Ell. Historical GIS: Technologies, Methodologies and Scholarship. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 20.Pickett, James. Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia. Cornell University Press, 2020. 21.Starr, Frederick S. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. Princeton University Press, 2015. 22.Fatland, Erika. Sovietistan: A Journey through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. MacLehose Press, 2019. 23.Frankopan, Peter. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. 24.Sahadeo, Jeff. Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865-1923. Indiana University Press, 2007. 25.Hirsch, Francine. Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. Cornell University Press, 2005. 26.Stronski, Paul. Tashkent: Forging a Soviet City, 1930-1966. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. 27.Reeves, Madeleine. Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia. Cornell University Press, 2014. 28.Kamp, Marianne. Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan. Cornell University Press, 2024. 29.Roland, Gerard. Transition and Economics: Politics, Markets and Firms. MIT Press, 2004. 30.Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union, 1921-1932. Cambridge University Press, 1979. 31.Nove, Alec. An Economic History of the USSR: 1917-1991. Penguin, 1993. 32.Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. Knopf, 1999. 33.Acemoglu, Daron and James A. Robinson. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. Crown Currency, 2012. 34.Gerschenkron, Alexander. Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective. Harvard University Press, 1962. 35.Morrison, Alexander. The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814-1914. Cambridge University Press, 2020. 36.Diamond, Jared and James A. Robinson. Natural Experiments of History. Harvard University Press, 2010. 37.Allworth, Edward. The Modern Uzbeks: from the fourteenth century to the present: a cultural history. Hoover Institution Press, 1990. 38.Allworth, Edward. Central Asia: One hundred thirty years of Russian dominance – a historical overview. Duke University Press, 1995. Papers 1.Nunn N. 2009. The Importance of History for Economic Development. Annual Review of Economics 1:65-92 2.Nunn N. 2020. The historical roots of economic development. Science 367:eaaz9986 3.Cirone A, Pepinsky TB. 2022. Historical Persistence. Annual Review of Political Science 25:241-59 4.Dell M. 2010. The persistent effects of Peru’s mining mita. Econometrica 78:1863-903 5.Acemoglu D, Johnson S, Robinson JA. 2001. The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: an Empirical Investigation. American Economic Review 91:1369-401 6.Banerjee A, Iyer L. 2005. History, institutions and economic performance: the legacy of colonial land tenure systems in India. American Economic Review 95:1190-213 7.Aldashev G, Guirkinger C. 2012. Deadly Anchor: gender bias under Russian colonization of Kazakhstan. Explorations in Economic History 49:399-422 8.Guirkinger C, Aldashev G. 2016. Clans and Ploughs: traditional institutions and production decisions of Kazakhs under Russian colonial settlement. Journal of Economic History 76:76-108 9.Roland G. 2004. Understanding Institutional Change: fast-moving and slow-moving institutions. Studies in Comparative International Development 38:109-31 10.Natkhov T. 2015. Colonization and Development: the long-term effect of Russian settlement in the North Caucasus, 1890s-2000s. Journal of Comparative Economics 43:76-97 11.Kaivan M. 2014. Community networks and the process of development. Journal of Economic Perspectives 28:49-76 12.Nugent J, Sanchez N. 1993. Tribes, Chiefs and Transhumance: a comparative institutional analysis. Economic Development and Cultural Change 42:87-113 13.Abad LA, Maurer N. 2021. History never really says goodbye: a critical review of the persistence literature. Journal of Historical Political Economy 1:31-68 14.Becker SO, Boeckh K, Hainz C, Woessmann L. 2016. The empire is dead, long live the empire! Long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy. Economic Journal 126:40-74 15.Grosfeld I, Zhuravskaya E. 2015. Cultural vs. economic legacies of empires: Evidence from the partition of Poland. Journal of Comparative Economics 43:55-75 16.Kassymbekova B, Chokobaeva A. 2021. Writing Soviet History of Central Asia. Frameworks, Challenges, Prospects. Central Asian Survey 40:483-503 17.Buggle JC, Nafziger S. 2021. The slow road from serfdom: labor coercion and long-run development in the former Russian Empire. Review of Economics and Statistics 103:1-17 18.Zhuravskaya E, Guriev S, Markevich A. 2024. New Russian economic history. Journal of Economic Literature 62:47-114 19.Hiwatari, Masato. 2008. “Traditions and the Informal Economy in Uzbekistan: A Case Study of Gaps in the Andijan Region.” Acta Slavica Iaponica 25: 43–66 20.T. Brück, D. Esenaliev, A. Kroeger, A. Kudebayeva, B. Mirkasimov, S. Steiner. 2014. “Household survey data for research on well-being and behavior in Central Asia.” Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (3), pp. 819-835 Additional readings will be given in the beginning of class.