lifestyle of the leadership, and chaps. 3 and 4, the
economic realities that most people face. The BBC
coverage of the currency reform can be found at
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8500017.stm. On the pleasure palace
and brandy consumption, see chap. 12 of Post (2004).
Our discussion of child labor and its use for picking
cotton in Uzbeksitan follows Kandiyoti (2008), available at
www.soas.ac.uk/cccac/events/cotton-sector-in-central-asia-
2005/file49842.pdf. The quote from Gulnaz is on p. 20 of
Kandiyoti. On the Andijon uprising, see International Crisis
Group (2005). The description of the election of Joseph
Stalin in the Soviet Union is reproduced from Denny
(1937).
Our analysis of “crony capitalism” in Egypt follows
Sfakianakis (2004).