Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Shrinking of the Aral Sea (1960s onward)
On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “The Aral Sea”
1960s onward — Planners divert the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers to grow cotton in the desert, and the Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake, loses most of its water. Fishing towns are stranded and dust storms spread salt and pesticides.
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- Brezhnev and the Era of Stagnation (chapter 7 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
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- Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
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