What is it about?
Based on the authors great knowledge of all the languages of the Soviet historical documentation of the conquest and control of Tajikistan, and her legal perspective, this book provides an emotionally powerful portrait of these important events.
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Why is it important?
This deep analysis of Soviet documents on the imposition of central control over Tajikistan highlights the brutality of the totalitarian Soviet rule. It provides the historical insight to help explain the political culture of Tajikistan.
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Even the Russian and European workers brought to Tajikistan to build the new Soviet state suffered horribly from the capricious cruelty of the government in Moscow. The betrayals and purges of the Tajik intelligentsia that had initially facilitated Soviet control cries out with tragedy.
Associate Professor Jonathan K Zartman
Air University
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This page is a summary of: Despite Culture. Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan, Europe Asia Studies, August 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2018.1503892.
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