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A competent history providing an overview of the political and social history of Uzbekistan & Tajikistan from the tail end of the Russian Empire to the US invasion of Afghanistan. Here we see the region switch hands between puppet emirs, Islamist bandits, nas…
Some city families spoke only Russian, first to push the children to get ahead, and gradually because their declining Tajik seemed inadequate for what they wanted to say. Many people came to believe that Tajik was intrinsically unsuited to the modern world, u…
Qader Baba-born in around 1900 - was a grown man at this time and well able to compare the new order with the old. His earliest memory is of the khan processing through his village to check the level of the Amu before the planting season. 'The jesters would c…
