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Illegal Markets and the Formation of a Central Asian Borderland: The Turkestan–Xinjiang opium trade (1881–1917)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2020

NICCOLÒ PIANCIOLA
NICCOLÒ PIANCIOLA*
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Lingnan University Email: niccolopianciola@ln.edu.hk
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Abstract

This article utilizes material from archives in Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan as well as published Chinese sources to explore the opium trade between Tsarist Turkestan and Xinjiang from the early 1880s to 1917. It focuses on two different levels: the borderlands economy and society, and state policies towards illegal (or ‘grey’) markets. The main groups active in the trade were Hui/Dungan and Taranchi migrants from China, who had fled Qing territory after the repression of the great anti-Qing Muslim revolts during the 1860s and 1870s. After settling in Tsarist territory, they grew poppies and exported opium back across the border to China. This article shows how the borderland economy was influenced by the late-Qing anti-opium campaign, and especially by the First World War. During the war, the Tsarist government tried to create a state opium monopoly over the borderland economy, but this attempt was botched first by the great Central Asian revolt of 1916, and later by the 1917 revolution. Departing from the prevailing historiography on borderlands, this article shows how the international border, far from being an obstacle to the trade, was instead the main factor that made borderland opium production and trade possible. It also shows how the borderland population made a strategic use of the border-as-institution, and how local imperial administrators—in different periods and for different reasons—adapted to, fostered, or repressed this most profitable borderland economic activity.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 54 , Issue 6 , November 2020 , pp. 1828 - 1875
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Footnotes

Research for this article has been conducted in the framework of the project ‘Imperial Borderlands and Transnational Illegal Markets: Opium Trade and Migrations between Russia, Inner Asia and Northeast China (1881–1937)’ funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (project code LU13600817). I would like to thank Scott Relyea and two anonymous reviewers for comments on earlier versions of the text, James Fellows and Marco Caboara for editing assistance, and Gul'nar Moldakhanova and Bolat Zhanaev for their support of my research in the State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Almaty. I am also very grateful to the Centre d’études franco-russe de Moscou for supporting my research over the years.

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108 Ibid.

109 E. I. Svirlovskii, Kul'tura maka i dobyvanie opiia v Semirech'e (otchët o komandirovke v Semirech'e) (Petrograd: A.E. Vineke, 1917), 37.

110 TsGARK, 76/1/426 (1913).

111 Central State Archive of the Republic of Uzbekistan (hereafter TsGARUz), R-29/3/2098/15 (March–April 1921), ‘K voprosu o zagotovke opija’.

112 Russian towns in Semirech'e were partially agricultural settlements in which fields and orchards were scattered among the houses.

113 TsGARK, 44/1/37979/135 (30.08.1914), anonymous handwritten letter to the Semirech'e military governor, signed ‘local dweller, town of Przheval'sk’.

114 Ibid., l. 135ob.

115 For a convincing interpretation of the continuum between war and revolution in the Russian empire as a process of mass mobilization, followed by mass demobilization and state collapse, see Lohr, Eric and Sanborn, Joshua, ‘1917: Revolution as Demobilization and State Collapse’, Slavic Review 76/3 (2017): 703–9CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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117 Until 1922, when the tariff was changed, the tariff for ten puds of opium (needed for the production of 1 pud of morphine) was 225 rubles, whereas the tariff on the import of one pud of morphine was 80 rubles. Cf. RGAE, 3429/3/170/1 (11.06.1923), Doklad V.I. Massal'skogo.

118 TsGARK, 44/1/37979/136 (30.08.1914), anonymous handwritten letter to the Semirech'e military governor, signed ‘local dweller, town of Przheval'sk’.

119 Ibid.

120 TsGARK, 44/1/37979/137 (13.09.1914), telegram from Semirech'e Military Governor Fol'baum to the governor general in Tashkent. The government had instituted prohibition in July 1914, ‘with a single stroke wiping out between one-quarter and one-third of all government revenues, blowing a massive hole in the treasury’ (Schrad, Mark Lawrence, Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 186Google Scholar). This was considered a temporary measure aimed at avoiding mobilization riots but, during the war, both the government and the Duma put forward proposals to make the prohibition permanent (Chagadaeva, Ol'ga, ‘Sukhoi zakon’ v Rossiiskoi imperii i gody Pervoi mirovoi voiny (po materialam Petrograda i Moskvy) (Moskva: AIRO-XXI, 2016), 70–3, 121–35Google Scholar).

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123 Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (hereafter RGASPI), 122/1/220/1ob (undated, but from 1921–22), ‘Report of the President of the Commission about the Semirech'e Railway, Engineer Frolov’. Frolov was quoting data from Vasil'ev, V. A., Semirechenskaya oblast’, kak koloniia i rol' v nei Chuiskoi doliny (Petrograd: Ekaterin. tip., 1915)Google Scholar.

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127 Pianciola, Stalinismo di frontiera, 95–8.

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136 RGAE, 3429/3/170/7 (11.06.1923), Doklad V.I. Massal'skogo.

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