Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic
Tajikistan, 1929–1991. Draft, not yet reviewed
The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union which existed from 1929 to 1991 in Central Asia. The Tajik Republic was created on 5 December 1929 as a national entity for the Tajik people within the Soviet Union. It succeeded the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Tajik SSR), which had been created on 14 October 1924 as a part of the predominantly Turkic Uzbek SSR in the process of national delimitation in Soviet Central Asia. On 24 August 1990, the Tajik SSR declared sovereignty in its borders, and on 9 September 1991 it declared its independence from the disintegrating Soviet Union.
Seat of power: Dushanbe
No rulers documented for this era yet.
Culture
- Notably, the Tajik SSR was the only republic of the Soviet Union to be separated from the Russian SFSR by more than one other republic.
- The new autonomous republic included what had been eastern Bukhara and had a population of about 740,000, out of a total population of nearly 5 million in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic as a whole.
- Until 1929, Dushanbe was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as Stalinabad, after Joseph Stalin.
- Dushanbe was captured by the Bolsheviks in 1922, and the town was made the capital of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1924.
Picture
The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic existed from 1929 to 1991 in Central Asia.
Image: SVG by Pianist, Public domain, file
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Sources
- Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic (Wikipedia)
- Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic (Wikidata)
- About the picture (Wikipedia)
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