Research outputs
Selected research outputs
- Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan (Book - 2025)
- Cotton, capitalism, and colonial legacies in Central Asia’s own ‘agrarian debate’. (Journal article - 2026)
- Wormwood, nomads’ rights, and capitalism: the birth of a chemical industry in Russian Turkestan (1870s-1914). (Journal article - 2023)
- The Elusive zemskii sbor, or: Taxation without Representation in Russian Turkestan? (Journal article - 2022)
- Continuities and novelties in early Soviet law-making about Central Asian water. (Journal article - 2019)
- The Hunt for Red Orient: A Soviet industrial trest between Moscow and Bukhara (1922-1929) (Book - 2016)
- On the local origins of the Soviet attack on “religious” waqf in the Uzbek SSR (1927) (Journal article - 2015)
- The Cotton Boom and the Land Tax in Russian Turkestan (1880s-1915) (Journal article - 2013)
- ADAPTING RUSSIAN TECHNOLOGIES OF POWER: LAND-AND-WATER REFORM IN THE UZBEK SSR (1924-1928) (Journal article - 2012)
- Swamps, sorghum and saxauls: Marginal lands and the fate of Russian Turkestan (c. 1880-1915) (Journal article - 2010)
2026
Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin, by Jeronim Perović
Penati, B. (2026). Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin, by Jeronim Perović. The English Historical Review, 141(610), 953-954. doi:10.1093/ehr/ceag152
Collectivization Was More than a Policy: Exposing the Full Extent of Sovietization in the Uzbek Countryside
Penati, B. (2026). Collectivization Was More than a Policy: Exposing the Full Extent of Sovietization in the Uzbek Countryside. Journal of Central Asian History, 5(1), 113-123. doi:10.1163/27728668-20260004
Cotton, capitalism, and colonial legacies in Central Asia’s own ‘agrarian debate’.
Penati, B. (2026). Cotton, Capitalism, and Colonial Legacies in Central Asias Own Agrarian Debate. Soviet and Post Soviet Review. doi:10.30965/18763324-bja10146
2025
Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan
Penati, B. (2024). Rural History of Soviet Central Asia, Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan. De Gruyter. doi:10.1163/9789004714250
2024
Environmental Humanities in Central Asia Relations Between Extraction and Interdependence Introduction
de la Croix, J. F., & Penati, B. (2024). Environmental Humanities in Central Asia Relations Between Extraction and Interdependence Introduction. In ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES IN CENTRAL ASIA (pp. 1-27). doi:10.4324/9781003362364-1
2023
Introduction
de la Croix, J. F., & Penati, B. (2023). Introduction. In Environmental Humanities in Central Asia (pp. 1-27). Taylor & Francis. doi:10.4324/9781003362364-1
“A field upstream is better than a mirab brother”: Searching for Power on Central Asian Water.
Penati, B. (2023). “A field upstream is better than a mirab brother”: Searching for Power on Central Asian Water.. In N. B. Breyfogle, & P. C. Brown (Eds.), Hydraulic Societies: Water, Power, and Control in East and Central Asian History. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press.
Wormwood, nomads’ rights, and capitalism: the birth of a chemical industry in Russian Turkestan (1870s-1914).
Penati, B. (2023). Wormwood, nomads’ rights, and capitalism: the birth of a chemical industry in Russian Turkestan (1870s-1914).. Modern Asian Studies. doi:10.1017/S0026749X23000057
Environmental Humanities in Central Asia: Relations Between Extraction and Interdependence
de la Croix, J. F., & Penati, B. (2023). Environmental Humanities in Central Asia: Relations Between Extraction and Interdependence. doi:10.4324/9781003362364
Introduction
de la Croix, J. F., & Penati, B. (2023). Introduction. In Unknown Book (pp. 1-27). doi:10.4324/9781003362364-1
On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia
Penati, B. (2023). On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia. ENVIRONMENT AND HISTORY, 29(4), 613-615. doi:10.3197/096734023X16945097374272
2022
Roundtable studying the Anthropocene in Central Asia: the challenge of sources and scales in human-environment relations
de la Croix, J. F., Arzhantseva, I., Dagyeli, J., Dubuisson, E. -M., Harke, H., Penati, B., . . . Wooden, A. (2022). Roundtable studying the Anthropocene in Central Asia: the challenge of sources and scales in human-environment relations. CENTRAL ASIAN SURVEY, 41(1), 180-203. doi:10.1080/02634937.2021.1960797
The Elusive zemskii sbor, or: Taxation without Representation in Russian Turkestan?
Penati, B. (2022). The Elusive zemskii sbor, or: Taxation without Representation in Russian Turkestan?. Journal of Central Asian History, 1(1), 1-36. doi:10.1163/27728668-12340001
2019
The environmental legacy of the Soviet regime
Penati, B. (2019). The environmental legacy of the Soviet regime. In Kazakhstan and the Soviet Legacy Between Continuity and Rupture (pp. 51-74). doi:10.1007/978-981-13-6693-2_4
Land and Water in Tsarist and Early Soviet Central Asia.
Penati, B. (2019). Land and Water in Tsarist and Early Soviet Central Asia. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Oxford University Press (OUP). doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.320
Continuities and novelties in early Soviet law-making about Central Asian water.
Penati, B. (2019). Continuities and novelties in early Soviet law-making about Central Asian water.. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 62(4), 674-730. doi:10.1163/15685209-12341491
2017
Making Uzbekistan: nation, empire, and revolution in the early USSR
Penati, B. (2017). Making Uzbekistan: nation, empire, and revolution in the early USSR. CENTRAL ASIAN SURVEY, 36(3), 395-398. doi:10.1080/02634937.2017.1306333
2016
The Hunt for Red Orient: A Soviet industrial trest between Moscow and Bukhara (1922-1929)
Penati, B. (2016). The Hunt for Red Orient: A Soviet industrial trest between Moscow and Bukhara (1922-1929) (Vol. 2406). W. Chase, B. Donnorummo, A. Konitzer, S. Guillory, & R. H. Linden (Eds.), Pittsburgh: The Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh. doi:10.5195/cbp.2016.205
Svetlana Gorshenina, L’Invention de l’Asie centrale: Histoire du concept de la Tartarie à l’Eurasie (Genève: Droz, 2014), 704 pp.
Penati, B. (2016). Svetlana Gorshenina, L’Invention de l’Asie centrale: Histoire du concept de la Tartarie à l’Eurasie (Genève: Droz, 2014), 704 pp.. Unknown Journal, 37, 143-144. doi:10.14943/asi.37.143
2015
On the local origins of the Soviet attack on “religious” waqf in the Uzbek SSR (1927)
Penati, B. (2015). On the local origins of the Soviet attack on “religious” waqf in the Uzbek SSR (1927). Acta Slavica Iaponica, 36, 39-72. Retrieved from http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/publictn/acta/36/pp.39-72.pdf
2014
Life on the Edge: Border-Making and Agrarian Policies in the Aim District (Eastern Fergana), 1924–1929
Penati, B. (2014). Life on the Edge: Border-Making and Agrarian Policies in the Aim District (Eastern Fergana), 1924–1929. Ab Imperio, 2014(2), 193-230. doi:10.1353/imp.2014.0056
2013
The Cotton Boom and the Land Tax in Russian Turkestan (1880s-1915)
Penati, B. (2013). The Cotton Boom and the Land Tax in Russian Turkestan (1880s-1915). KRITIKA-EXPLORATIONS IN RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN HISTORY, 14(4), 741-774. doi:10.1353/kri.2013.0060
Managing Rural Landscapes in Colonial Turkestan: A View from the Margins
Penati, B. (2013). MANAGING RURAL LANDSCAPES IN COLONIAL TURKESTAN: A VIEW FROM THE MARGINS. In EXPLORATIONS IN THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF MODERN CENTRAL ASIA (19TH- EARLY 20TH CENTURY) (Vol. 29, pp. 65-109). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
On the Soviet discovery of rural Central Asia: the Karp commission in context
Penati, B. (2013). On the Soviet discovery of rural Central Asia: the Karp commission in context. Monde(s): Histoire, Espaces, Relations, 4, 105-125.
2012
Svetlana Gorshenina, Asie Centrale
Pénati, B. (2012). Svetlana Gorshenina, Asie Centrale. Cahiers du monde russe, 53/4(53/4). doi:10.4000/monderusse.7754
ADAPTING RUSSIAN TECHNOLOGIES OF POWER: LAND-AND-WATER REFORM IN THE UZBEK SSR (1924-1928)
Penati, B. (2012). ADAPTING RUSSIAN TECHNOLOGIES OF POWER: LAND-AND-WATER REFORM IN THE UZBEK SSR (1924-1928). REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA, 25(2), 187-217. doi:10.1080/09546545.2012.731196
Tsars, Cossacks, and Nomads. The formation of a borderland culture in Northern Kazakhstan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Penati, B. (2012). Tsars, Cossacks, and Nomads. The formation of a borderland culture in Northern Kazakhstan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Central Asian Survey, 31(3), 375-377. doi:10.1080/02634937.2012.717437
2011
Le Comité du coton et les autres. Secteur cotonnier et pouvoir économique en Ouzbékistan, 1922-1927
Pénati, B. (2011). Le Comité du coton et les autres. Secteur cotonnier et pouvoir économique en Ouzbékistan, 1922-1927. Cahiers du monde russe, 52/4(52/4), 555-589. doi:10.4000/monderusse.9354
Beyond Technicalities Land Assessment and Land-Tax in Russian Turkestan (ca. 1880-1917)
Penati, B. (2011). Beyond Technicalities Land Assessment and Land-Tax in Russian Turkestan (ca. 1880-1917). JAHRBUCHER FUR GESCHICHTE OSTEUROPAS, 59(1), 1-27. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
Le Comité du Coton et les autres. Secteur cotonnier et pouvoir économique en Ouzbékistan, 1922-1927
Penati, B. (2011). Le Comité du Coton et les autres. Secteur cotonnier et pouvoir économique en Ouzbékistan, 1922-1927. Cahiers du Monde Russe, 52(4), 555-589.
The Cotton Committee and the others: The cotton sector and economic power in Uzbekistan, 1922-1927
Pénati, B. (2011). The Cotton Committee and the others: The cotton sector and economic power in Uzbekistan, 1922-1927. Cahiers Du Monde Russe, 52(4), 555-589. doi:10.4000/monderusse.7561
The Khlopkom and the others: Cotton sector and economic power in Uzbekistan, 1922-1927
Penati, B. (2011). The Khlopkom and the others: Cotton sector and economic power in Uzbekistan, 1922-1927. CAHIERS DU MONDE RUSSE, 52(4), 555-+. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
2010
Swamps, sorghum and saxauls: Marginal lands and the fate of Russian Turkestan (c. 1880-1915)
Penati, B. (2010). Swamps, sorghum and saxauls: Marginal lands and the fate of Russian Turkestan (c. 1880-1915). Central Asian Survey, 29(1), 61-78. doi:10.1080/02634931003765548
Notes on the Birth of Russian Turkestan's Fiscal System: A View from the Fergana <i>Oblast</i>'
Penati, B. (2010). Notes on the Birth of Russian Turkestan's Fiscal System: A View from the Fergana <i>Oblast</i>'. JOURNAL OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ORIENT, 53, 739-769. doi:10.1163/156852010X539168
2008
"It is Italy that is predestined by history": Fascist Rome and Caucasian nationalists in exile (1928-1939)
Penati, B. (2008). "It is Italy that is predestined by history": Fascist Rome and Caucasian nationalists in exile (1928-1939). Oriente Moderno, 88(1), 41-73. doi:10.1163/22138617-08801003
« C’est L’Italie qui est Prédestinée par L’Histoire »: la Rome Fasciste et les Nationalistes Caucasiens en Exil (1928-1939)
Penati, B. (2008). « C’est L’Italie qui est Prédestinée par L’Histoire »: la Rome Fasciste et les Nationalistes Caucasiens en Exil (1928-1939). Oriente Moderno, 88(1), 41-73. doi:10.1163/22138617-08801003
2007
The reconquest of East Bukhara: The struggle against the Basmachi as a prelude to Sovietization
Penati, B. (2007). The reconquest of East Bukhara: The struggle against the Basmachi as a prelude to Sovietization. Central Asian Survey, 26(4), 521-538. doi:10.1080/02634930802018265