Tajikistan: History

This book describes how, often in the teeth of Uzbek opposition, the Tajiks gained first an autonomous administrative region within Uzbekistan, then an autonomous republic, and finally, in 1929, the status of a full Soviet Union Republic. Once the Tajiks had been granted a territory of their own, their new government had not only to survive the civil war that followed the revolution but then to build an entirely new country in an immensely inhospitable terrain.

"The History of the Tajik Civil War, 1992–1997" presents a historical and analytical survey of the Tajik civil war - one of the bloodiest and most violent conflicts that took place in the post-Soviet space after the collapse of the USSR. It explores a set of conceptual aspects such as conflict generating factors, causes, conflict dynamics, peacebuilding, and conflict transformation.

In this comprehensive and up-to-date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural, and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the modern-day Central Asian states of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan.

Series: Westview Case Studies in Anthropology
This book presents a compelling ethnography of the changes Tajikistan faced at the turn of the twenty-first century as seen through the eyes of its youth. It discusses the ethnographic gaze on the tremendous cultural changes being played out in post-Soviet Tajikistan.

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Series: Asian Studies Series Monograph; 5.
This book is a historical study of the Tajiks in Central Asia from the ancient times to the post-Soviet period. For millennia, these descendants of the original Aryan settlers were part of many different empires set up by Greek, Arab, Turkic and Russian invaders, as well as their own, most notably during the Middle Ages. The emergence of the modern state of Tajikistan began after 1917 under Soviet rule and culminated in the promulgation of independence in 1991.