Soviet planners wanted to turn Central Asia into the world’s largest producer of cotton, and for a period in the 1980s Uzbekistan did grow more than any other country. Jetty on the Small Aral Sea ...

A former Soviet republic in Central Asia, Uzbekistan declared its state sovereignty in 1990 and its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. A member of the BC Law faculty since 1985, Blum served ...