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A History of the Tajiks

Richard Foltz
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Author : Richard Foltz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788316514

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In this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the modern-day Central Asian states of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan. In eight chapters, the author explores the revitalisation of Persian culture under the Samanid Empire in the Tajik heartlands of historical Khorasan and Transoxiana; analyses the evolution of the politics of Tajik identity; and traces the history of the ethnic Tajik diaspora today.

A History of the Tajiks

Richard Foltz
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Author : Richard Foltz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755649662

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A History of the Tajiks by Richard Foltz Pdf

In this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the modern-day Central Asian states of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan. In eight chapters, the author explores the revitalisation of Persian culture under the Samanid Empire in the Tajik heartlands of historical Khorasan and Transoxiana; analyses the evolution of the politics of Tajik identity; and traces the history of the ethnic Tajik diaspora today. This revised edition includes a new chapter on the Tajiks' situation in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan since 2018, covering notably the effects of the Taliban's return to power in August 2021 and the COVID pandemic in all three countries, as well as border clashes with Kyrgyzstan.

Tajikistan

Kirill Nourzhanov,Christian Bleuer
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Author : Kirill Nourzhanov,Christian Bleuer
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925021165

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Tajikistan by Kirill Nourzhanov,Christian Bleuer Pdf

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 during the Middle Ages. The emergence of the modern state of Tajikistan began after 1917 under Soviet rule, and culminated in the promulgation of independence from the moribund USSR in 1991. In the subsequent civil war that raged between 1992 and 1997, Tajikistan came close to becoming a failed state. The legacy of that internal conflict remains critical to understanding politics in Tajikistan a generation later. Exploring the patterns of ethnic identity and the exigencies of state formation, the book argues that despite a strong sense of belonging underpinned by shared history, mythology and cultural traits, the Tajiks have not succeeded in forming a consolidated nation. The politics of the Russian colonial administration, the national-territorial delimitation under Stalin, and the Soviet strategy of socio-economic modernisation contributed to the preservation and reification of sub-ethnic cleavages and regional identities. The book demonstrates the impact of region-based elite clans on Tajikistan’s political trajectory in the twilight years of the Soviet era, and identifies objective and subjective factors that led to the civil war. It concludes with a survey of the process of national reconciliation after 1997, and the formal and informal political actors, including Islamist groups, who compete for influence in Tajik society. “Tajikistan: A Political and Social History is the best source of information on this important country in the English language. Drs Nourzhanov and Bleuer present a comprehensive yet detailed account of the past and prospects of this emerging nation, and have filled one of the major gaps in Central Asian scholarship. This book must be read by those who wish to grasp the vagaries of Central Asia’s evolving political and cultural landscapes.” Reuel Hanks, Professor of Geography, Oklahoma State University, and Editor of the Journal of Central Asian Studies. “If Tajikistan is known outside its region, it is often for the civil war that gravely damaged it. This volume authoritatively provides the longer perspective to the unsettling events of the 1990s and skilfully explains them in terms of history, social structure, and sub-state identities. In addition to highlighting a wealth of local factors, it is insightful on the ways in which antagonists can be transformed into broader ethnic and regional blocs. Kirill Nourzhanov and Christian Bleuer are erudite guides to an understudied part of Central Asia, while astutely instructing us about larger patterns of state-society relations and their impact on the logic of conflict.” James Piscatori, Professor of International Relations, Durham University.

Tajik Linguistics

Shinji Ido,Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari
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Author : Shinji Ido,Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110622799

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Tajik Linguistics by Shinji Ido,Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari Pdf

It is hardly an overstatement to say that Soviet linguists had a monopoly over Tajik linguistics before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, when most studies on the language were accessible exclusively through Russian and Tajik. Today, however, linguists dealing with Tajik are diverse not only in terms of their location but also in terms of their disciplinary orientation within linguistics, making it difficult for the general linguist to work out the state of the art of the linguistic study of Tajik. This volume aims to address this difficulty by collecting in a handbook format recent (post-Soviet) developments in the study of Tajik that now lie scattered in different subdisciplines of linguistics. The volume thus showcases the state of the art of post-Soviet Tajik linguistics and can be used as a guide for linguists interested in the language.

Muslims in Central Asia

Jo-Ann Gross
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Author : Jo-Ann Gross
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0822311909

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Muslims in Central Asia by Jo-Ann Gross Pdf

Central Asia is distinctive in its role as a frontier region in which a unique diversity of cultural, religious, and political traditions exist. This collection of essays by expert scholars in a range of disciplines focuses on the formation of ethnic, religious, and national identities in Muslim societies of Central Asia, thus furthering our general understanding of the history and culture of this significant region. This study includes several geopolitical regions--Chinese Central Asia, Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan, Transoxiana and Khurasan--and covers historical periods from the fifteenth century to the present. Drawing on scholarship in anthropology, religion, history, literature, and language studies, Muslims in Central Asia argues for an interdisciplinary, inter-regional dialog in the development of new approaches to understanding the Muslim societies in Central Asia. The authors creatively examine the social construction of identities as expressed through literature, Islamic discourse, historical texts, ethnic labels, and genealogies, and explore how such identities are formed, changed, and adopted through time. Contributors. Hamid Algar, Muriel Atkin, Walter Feldman, Dru C. Gladney, Edward J. Lazzerini, Beatrice Forbes Manz, Christopher Murphy, Oliver Roy, Isenbike Togan

The Establishment of National Republics in Soviet Central Asia

A. Haugen
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Author : A. Haugen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230502840

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The Establishment of National Republics in Soviet Central Asia by A. Haugen Pdf

After almost four centuries of expansion the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century covered vast territories on the Eurasian continent and included an immensely diverse population. How was the new Russian regime to deal with the complexity of its population? This book examines the role of nation and nationality in the Soviet Union and analyzes the establishment of national republics in Soviet Central Asia. It argues that the originally nationally minded Soviet communists with their anti-nationalist attitudes came to view nation and national identity as valuable tools in state building.

The Origins of the Civil War in Tajikistan

Tim Epkenhans
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Author : Tim Epkenhans
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498532792

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The Origins of the Civil War in Tajikistan by Tim Epkenhans Pdf

In May 1992 political and social tensions in the former Soviet Republic of Tajikistan escalated to a devastating civil war, which killed approximately 40,000-100,000 people and displaced more than one million. The enormous challenge of the Soviet Union’s disintegration compounded by inner-elite conflicts, ideological disputes and state failure triggered a downward spiral to one of the worst violent conflicts in the post-Soviet space. This book explains the causes of the Civil War in Tajikistan with a historical narrative recognizing long term structural causes of the conflict originating in the Soviet transformation of Central Asia since the 1920s as well as short-term causes triggered by Perestroika or Glasnost and the rapid dismantling of the Soviet Union. For the first time, a major publication on the Tajik Civil War addresses the many contested events, their sequences and how individuals and groups shaped the dynamics of events or responded to them. The book scrutinizes the role of regionalism, political Islam, masculinities and violent non-state actors in the momentous years between Perestroika and independence drawing on rich autobiographical accounts written by key actors of the unfolding conflict. Paired with complementary sources such as the media coverage and interviews, these autobiographies provide insights how Tajik politicians, field commanders and intellectuals perceived and rationalized the outbreak of the Civil War within the complex context of post-Soviet decolonization, Islamic revival and nationalist renaissance.

Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Soviet World

L. M. Drobizheva
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Author : L. M. Drobizheva
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1563247410

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Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Soviet World by L. M. Drobizheva Pdf

A collection of essays on ethnic conflict in the region, most of which do not support the notion that conflicts in Central Europe and the NIS are ethnically based or that ethnicity provides the key to their outbreak or resolution, but rather social, political, and economic conflicts are spawned by imperial collapse and far-reaching socioeconomic crises. Underlying themes include the motivating power of claims to equality and human dignity, and the struggle for control over political and economic resources. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Soviet Nation-Building in Central Asia

Grigol Ubiria
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Author : Grigol Ubiria
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317504344

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Soviet Nation-Building in Central Asia by Grigol Ubiria Pdf

The demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 resulted in new state-led nation-building projects in Central Asia. The emergence of independent republics spawned a renewed Western scholarly interest in the region’s nationality issues. Presenting a detailed study, this book examines the state-led nation-building projects in the Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Exploring the degree, forms and ways of the Soviet state involvement in creating Kazakh and Uzbek nations, this book places the discussion within the theoretical literature on nationalism. The author argues that both Kazakh and Uzbek nations are artificial constructs of Moscow-based Soviet policy-makers of the 1920s and 1930s. This book challenges existing arguments in current scholarship by bringing some new and alternative insights into the role of indigenous Central Asian and Soviet officials in these nation-building projects. It goes on to critically examine post-Soviet official Kazakh and Uzbek historiographies, according to which Kazakh and Uzbek peoples had developed national collective identities and loyalties long before the Soviet era. This book will be a useful contribution to Central Asian History and Politics, as well as studies of Nationalism and Soviet Politics.

A History of the Tajiks

Richard C. Foltz
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Author : Richard C. Foltz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 1788316533

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A History of the Tajiks by Richard C. Foltz Pdf

"In this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the modern-day Central Asian states of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan. In eight chapters, the author explores the revitalisation of Persian culture under the Samanid Empire in the Tajik heartlands of historical Khorasan and Transoxiana; analyses the evolution of the politics of Tajik identity; and traces the history of the ethnic Tajik diaspora today."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

The History of the Civil War in Tajikistan

Iraj Bashiri
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Author : Iraj Bashiri
Publisher : Central Asian Studies
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1644692872

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The History of the Civil War in Tajikistan by Iraj Bashiri Pdf

In Tajikistan, the Soviets used inherent Tajik ideological, regional, and ethnic conflicts to move their affairs forward. In 1992, after enduring Soviet imposition for seventy years, the Tajiks reversed the process and toppled the Soviet power structure in Tajikistan. The volume traces the development of the conflict using primary Tajik sources.

Uzbekistan

Neil Melvin
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Author : Neil Melvin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135287511

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Uzbekistan by Neil Melvin Pdf

Uzbekistan more than any other country in the area is likely to play a critical role in shaping Central Asia's future. Situated at the heart of the region and sharing borders with all the other Central Asian states, Uzbekistan is the most powerful and populous of the new states of Central Asia. In this volume, the historical origins of Uzbekistan are explored and the range of political, economic and social challenges faced by the country since independence is charted. Particular attention is given to the emergence of highly authoritarian politics in the country and the implications of this regime for the prospects of economic development, ethnic peace, and the growth of political Islam. The emergence of Tashkent as a force in the international system and the importance of Uzbekistan to other countries in the area, to regional powers and to the leading western countries and international organizations is also examined.

Boundary Issues in Central Asia

Necati Polat
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Author : Necati Polat
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004480506

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Boundary Issues in Central Asia by Necati Polat Pdf

Boundary Issues in Central Asia provides detailed answers to: What was the legal framework within which the new states of Central Asia attained statehood? How did the administrative divisions of the former Soviet Union evolve, almost over night, into inter-state frontiers, and on what legal basis? Are Central Asian states content with the post-independence border arrangements? What outstanding border issues with states adjacent to the former Soviet Central Asia were inherited by Central Asian states from the USSR, the predecessor state? What became, in particular, of the perennial border disputes of the predecessor state with China? What border issues with the latter have since been settled by Central Asian states and what issues are pending resolution? as well as to a host of other boundary-related questions, such as the minority, self-determination and ethno-border issues, with significant bearings on the stability of the existing territorial arrangements, the legal regimes for the use of transboundary watercourses in the region, including the dispute over the legal status of the Caspian Sea with its vast hydrocarbon resources. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Native Peoples of the World

Steven L. Danver
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Author : Steven L. Danver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2475 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317463993

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Native Peoples of the World by Steven L. Danver Pdf

This work examines the world's indigenous peoples, their cultures, the countries in which they reside, and the issues that impact these groups.

Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities

Carl Skutsch
Encyclopedia of the World s Minorities Book PDF

Author : Carl Skutsch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1510 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135193881

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Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities by Carl Skutsch Pdf

This study of minorities involves the difficult issues of rights, justice, equality, dignity, identity, autonomy, political liberties, and cultural freedoms. The A-Z Encyclopedia presents the facts, arguments, and areas of contention in over 560 entries in a clear, objective manner. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities website.