Socialist Development Laboratory

Historians have been exploring these questions for some time. This book takes readers to a place that captures the political, economic, and environmental drama of modern times: the Soviet Republic of Tajikistan. Although Tajikistan may seem like a remote region of the Soviet Union, its story sheds light on the history of Soviet development and other efforts to transform the economy and society of the postcolonial world in the 20th century. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.