Uzbekistan takes steps towards establishing a welfare state and eradicating poverty: from ‘Iron Feast’ to ‘Iron Notebooks’
By elmurod [dot] sobirov [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se (Elmurod Sobirov) - published 10 January 2025 Tolibjon Mustafoev, PhD candidate at Lund University For the last few decades, Uzbekistan has been a popular research destination for many scholars studying authoritarian regimes. Indeed, the first president of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, had been in power from the first days of independence in 1991