Penati, Beatrice2017-01-062017-01-062013Penati, B. (2013). On the Soviet discovery of rural Central Asia. The Karp commission in context. Revue Monde(s). Histoire, Espaces, Relations, 4, 105-125.http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/2176In 1925, the USSR communist party’s Central Asian Bureau ordered an inquiry on the countryside, resulting in the series The Modern Central Asian Village. It combined pre-revolutionary methods with Soviet attention to social stratification, while the benchmark of the pre-1917 economy and the composition of the commission revealed the heritage of Tsarist colonial rule.enAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United StatesCentral AsiaCommunist PartycountrysideArticle