The Birth of Tajikistan

"This book describes how, often in the teeth of Uzbek opposition, the Tajiks gained, first an autonomous oblast (administrative region) within Uzbekistan, then an autonomous republic, and finally, in 1929, the status of a full Soviet Union Republic. The new government had not only to survive the civil war which followed the revolution. It then had to build a new country in an immensely inhospitable terrain and - in a society where the concept did not exist - create a Tajik identity, which was ultimately to become 'national in form but socialist in content'."--BOOK JACKET.