Publications
Selected publications
- Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan (Book - 2025)
- 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 (<i>c.</i>1880–1915) (Journal article - 2010)
2025
Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan
Penati, B. (2025). Rural History of Soviet Central Asia: Land Reform and Agricultural Change in Early Soviet Uzbekistan. BRILL. doi:10.1163/9789004714250
2023
Introduction
Croix, J. F. D. L., & Penati, B. (2023). Introduction. In Environmental Humanities in Central Asia (pp. 1-27). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003362364-1
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
Féaux de la Croix, J., & Penati, B. (n.d.). Environmental Humanities in Central Asia. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003362364
Jennifer Keating, <i>On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia</i>
Penati, B. (2023). Jennifer Keating, <i>On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia</i>. Environment and History, 29(4), 613-615. doi:10.3197/096734023x16945097374272
2022
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
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
2019
The Environmental Legacy of the Soviet Regime
Penati, B. (2019). The Environmental Legacy of the Soviet Regime. In Kazakhstan and the Soviet Legacy (pp. 51-74). Springer Singapore. doi:10.1007/978-981-13-6693-2_4
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
Land and Water in Tsarist and Early Soviet Central Asia.
Penati, B. (n.d.). Land and Water in Tsarist and Early Soviet Central Asia. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.320
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.. Acta Slavica Iaponica, 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
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
2011
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.
2010
Swamps, sorghum and saxauls: marginal lands and the fate of Russian Turkestan (<i>c.</i>1880–1915)
Penati, B. (2010). Swamps, sorghum and saxauls: marginal lands and the fate of Russian Turkestan (<i>c.</i>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
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: rivista d'informazione e di studi per la diffusione della conoscenza della cultura dell'Oriente sopratutto Musulmano.
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