Author: Nourzhanov, Kirill, PhD (Centre for Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australia)
Hardback; Book
256 pages
Published: July 2002
C. Hurst & Co (Publishers) Ltd
ISBN: 1850654050
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An extensive history of the Tajiks, this text places special emphasis on their ethnogenesis, their efforts to preserve cultural identity during the long years of Turkic and Russian political dominance, and the ultimate failure of the nation-building project which led to a bloody civil war in 1992.