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Hard Times: Turkey during the Great Depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Michele Penner Angrist*
Affiliation:
Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, Princeton University

Extract

The essays contained in this volume challenge and complement standard treatments of Turkish history during the 1930s. Typically, the 1930s are cast as a decade that opened with the Turkish economy reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. Decisionmakers in the ruling Republican People's Party (RPP) were not without a response, however. They introduced statist economic policies whereby the Turkish state began to play an augmented role in production and capital accumulation. The conventional story thus chronicles the ruling elite's most visible policy reaction to the material hardships of the 1930s.

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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 2000

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