1993 Reports

The Bloody Path of Change: The Case of Post-Soviet Tajikistan

Tadjbakhsh, Shahrbanou

Following the breakup of the Russian Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century, the republics of Turkistan and Eastern Bukhara sought their autonomy under two banners: Pan-Turkism, designed by nationalist intellectuals in the republic of Turkistan, and Pan-Islamism, which grew out of the ambitions of religious elements organized, for the most part, in the Emirate of Bukhara. These two “isms,” each with its own demands, joined forces to battle the influence of Russian colonizers and the Red Army.