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Book Launch – Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin March 16, 2021 Virtual book launch hosted by the Central Asia Program at the Institute for…

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Book Launch: March 15 – Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin

3 March, 2021

Pipe Dreams explores the ways in which both the tsarist and Soviet regimes used fantasies of bringing the deserts to life as a means of claiming legitimacy in Central Asia,…