- 420 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
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 emergen
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Table of contents
- Preliminary pages
- List of Maps, Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration
- Map 1 Tajikistanās Neighbours and Major Cities
- Introduction
- 1. Tajiks on the Crossroads of History, from Antiquity to the Age of Colonialism
- 2. Forging Tajik Identity: Ethnic Origins, NationalāTerritorial Delimitation and Nationalism
- 3. State Formation in the Soviet Era, 1917 to the 1960s
- 4. Traditional Society and Regionalism in Soviet Tajikistan
- 5. Formal and Informal Political Institutions in Soviet Tajikistan
- 6. Experimentation, Turmoil and Fragmentation under Gorbachev, 1985ā1991
- 7. The Rise of Opposition, the Contraction of the State and the Road to Independence
- 8. Islam in Society and Politics
- 9. From Political Confrontation to Civil War, 1991ā1992
- Epilogue: The Civil War of 1992
- Appendix I: Districts of Tajikistan
- Appendix II: Major Ethnic Groups in Tajikistan
- Bibliography