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It not only disempowered the peasantry, but broke the peasant-worker alliance, and greatly reduced the potential resistance to reform. ... As David Kotz and Sigrid Schmalzer suggested, the kind of phrase was also used in China during the Mao era and in the Soviet Union. . ↩..

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Then, for more than sixty years, Central Asia was cut off from contact with the outside world, as the Soviet Union closed its borders with Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, and, later, China. ..

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