State-Directed Diffusion of Technology: The Mechanization of Cotton Harvesting in Soviet Central Asia

4 Priority was given to replacement of back-breaking work by modern machines in part because it provided good publicity when, at the peak of Soviet prestige in the Third World, Soviet Central Asia was held up as a model, contrasted to southern neighbors both in the satisfaction of basic needs and in economic dynamism.Western economists also accepted this image; see Nove and Newth, Soviet

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