Маки для большевиков: опиум на туркестано-синьцзяньском приграничье в 1914–1929 годах
Poppies for the Bolsheviks: Opium on the Turkestan-Xinjiang Borderlands in 1914-1929

Summary/Abstract: The historiography of the world opium trade, as well as writings on the trade and consumption of opium in China, has so far ignored the cross-border production and trade of opium from Tsarist Central Asia and the Russian Far East. 2 These cross-border regional opium economies, which developed in the 1880s and 1890s and flourished especially in the period 1908-1930, were based on the porous state borders. Various groups of migrants from the Qing Empire (Hui, Taranchi, Han, Koreans) moved across the border and grew opium poppy. The opium produced by them was then mostly sold across the border to Xinjiang and Manchuria, even though in the Far East at the beginning of the twentieth century one could observe a growing demand for opium consumption from the Chinese population living in the czarist territory.

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