8th century - Tajiks emerge as distinct ethnic group; Arab invaders conquer Central Asia, including what is now Tajikistan, and introduce Islam. 9th/10th century - Persian Samanid dynasty gains ...

Two years later, he was promoted to chairman of the Tajik SSR’s State Planning Committee, or Gosplan, a position he occupied for 19 years. From 1965, he simultaneously acted as deputy chairman of ...

“Life in the Tajik SSR in 1985 was good – and was getting better,” Scarborough writes. Prior to perestroika the Tajik SSR was “a sleepy Soviet backwater” with a reputation in Moscow of ...

Stalin's Divide And Rule The maps of the early 1920s show the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic as incorporating Vorukh within its borders. But the maps of the 1950s show Vorukh as an exclave within ...

Although Tajikistan is the heir to an ancient Persian and Turkic cultural legacy, the modern state dates back to 1929 and Stalin’s creation of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic.

8th century - Tajiks emerge as distinct ethnic group; Arab invaders conquer Central Asia, including what is now Tajikistan, and introduce Islam. 9th/10th century - Persian Samanid dynasty gains ...