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Tajikistan : a political and social history

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 d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Nourzhanov, Kirill, Bleuer, Christian (Autor)
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canberra : ANU E Press, [2013]
Colección:Asian studies series monograph ; 5
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tajiks on the crossroads of history, from antiquity to the age of colonialism
  • Forging Tajik identity: ethnic origins, national-territorial delimitation and nationalism
  • State formation in the Soviet era, 1917-1960s
  • Traditional society and regionalism in Soviet Tajikistan
  • Formal and informal political institutions in Soviet Tajikistan
  • Experimentation, turmoil and fragmentation under Gorbachev, 1985-1991
  • The rise of opposition, the contraction of the state and the road to independence
  • Islam in society and politics
  • From political confrontation to civil war, 1991-1992
  • Epilogue: the civil war of 1992.