TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bashiri,Iraj
TI  - The History of the Civil War in Tajikistan
T2  - Central Asian Studies
SN  - 9781644692875
AV  - DK928.6 
U1  - 958.6086 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Boston, MA : 
PB  - Academic Studies Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Bukhara
KW  - Central Asia
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Hanafi
KW  - Iran
KW  - Jadidists
KW  - Perestroika
KW  - Shari’a
KW  - Sovietization
KW  - Tajik independence
KW  - Tajikistan Civil War
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Wahhabism
KW  - World War II
KW  - amirs
KW  - atheism
KW  - cadre
KW  - civil war
KW  - communism
KW  - economy
KW  - ethnicity
KW  - glasnost’
KW  - identity
KW  - ideology
KW  - infrastructure
KW  - nineteenth century
KW  - nomenklatura
KW  - politics
KW  - post-Soviet states
KW  - radical Islam
KW  - reconstruction
KW  - reform
KW  - regionalism
KW  - religion
KW  - secular state
KW  - socialism
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1. The War Year --; 2. The Emirate of Bukhara --; 3. The Sovietization of Tajikistan --; 4. End of an Era --; 5. The Government of National Reconciliation --; 6. Reinventing the Wheel --; 7. The Path to Recovery --; Appendix --; Glossary --; List of Abbreviations --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In the 10th century, the Turks separated the Tajiks, a Central Asian community, from their Iranian kinfolk. The Tajiks adopted the Hanafi faith and, alongside ethnicity, made it a pillar of their identity. Between 1920 and 1990, the Soviets tried to alter the Tajiks’ identity. While they could affect the Tajiks’ social status substantially (cf. Afghanistan), they failed in changing the Tajiks’ ideology. Instead, they became involved in a conflict that pitted Soviet Tajiks against radical Muslim Tajiks, the latter intentionally misidentified as Wahhabis by the Soviets. The question was about the viability of enforcing the secular Soviet constitution versus the Islamic Shari’a. Inability to resolve the dispute led to civil war (1992). The volume traces the conflict from its roots in Bukhara to the establishment of an independent secular Tajik state (1997)
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644692882?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781644692882
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ER  -