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Tajikistan: A Political and Social History – Whole Book (5.5 MB)
- Preliminary pages
- List of Maps, Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration
- Map 1 Tajikistan’s Neighbours and Major Cities
- Introduction
- 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 to the 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