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Достони зиндагӣ (қ. 1) Stories of life

From the publisher: Доктори илмиу филология профессор X. Асозода дар ҷилди якуми китоби хотироти худ ҳаёти тифливу наврасӣ, солҳои донишчуи аввалин қадамҳои дар ҷодаи илму маориф гузоштаи хешро бо забони шево ба риштаи тасвир кашидааст. Мутолиаи китоб барои доираи восеи хонандогон алалхусус барои онҳое ки омузиши ҳаёт ва эҷодиёт чеҳраҳои шинохтаи фарҳангиро пешаи худ қарор доданд, судманд хоҳад буд.
H. Asozoda (1941-2014) was a prominent literary historian and educator who served two tours as an interpreter in Afghanistan. This is the first volume of H. Asozoda's three volume memoirs. It covers his childhood, schooling in Kulob, studies in Dushanbe, and his graduate work. It is particularly useful for its description of university life in the 1960s, and the perspective it offers on the contrast between life in more provincial cities and in the capital.
Date: 2006-2008 Source: Asozoda, Khudoinazar. Dostoni zindagi [3 vols.] Dushanbe: Devashtich, 2006-2008. vol. 1
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Падидаҳои худшиноси ё саҳифаҳо аз дафтари хотира The ways of self knowing, or, pages from my journal

Mirboboi Mirrahim (Mirbobo MIrrahimov) is a translator and expert in pre-Islamic religions. During perestroika, he became famous for his writings on the Tajik language and was one of the first writers to publicly discuss the status of Samarqand and Bukhara. In this Tajik-language volume written during perestroika, Mirrahim presents events related to the publication and reception of his journalistic works based on his journal entries.
Date: 1990 Source: Mirrahim, Mirboboi. Padidahoi khudshinosi yo sahifaho az daftari khotira. Dushanbe, 1990.
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Размышленние о пройденном пути Reflections on the path I've walked

From the publisher: Эта книга — воспоминания одного из старейших ученых Узбекистана, Героя Социалистического Труда, члена Академии наук Узбекской ССР Т.Н. Кары-Ниязова. В основе ее содержится материал книги, вышедшей в 1967 году в Ташкенте под таким же названием. Готовя книгу к настоящему изданию, автор сделал дополнения. Он рассказывает о состоянии культуры в Туркестане в дооктябрьский период и о культурном и научном строительстве в Узбекской ССР . Читатель узнает о замечательных людях, с которыми автору пришлось вместе работать, о содружестве ученых разных национальностей, о их вкладе в развитие нашей Родины. В последней главе автор делится впечатлениями поездок в разные страны. Tashmuhammed Niazovich Kary-Niazov (1897–1970) was an Uzbek educator, mathematician, and historian. This memoir, published during the Soviet era, covers his childhood in pre-revolutionary Central Asia, work as a teacher and educator after the revolution, involvement with the alphabet reforms of the 1940s, as well as his travels to Italy, Japan, Afghanistan, India, and Bulgaria. This is the second, expanded, edition, of a memoir that first appeared in Tashkent in 1967.
Date: 1970 Source: Kary-Niazov, Tashmuhamed Nizaovich. Razmyshlenie o proidennom puti. Moscow: Politizdat, 1970.
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Памяти Лахути In Memory of Lahuti

Abdulqosim Lahuti (1887-1957) was an Iranian/ Tajik writer. Forced to emigrate to the USSR for political reasons, he became a leading figure of Tajik letters and his works were translated into Russian and many other languages. This collection of essays about Lahuti's life and works was published in honour of Lahuti's posthumous 80th birthday, and includes works by Russian, Tajik, and other colleagues.
Date: 1974 Source: L.N. Demidchik and M. Shukurov, eds. Pamiati Lahuti (Dushanbe: Donish, 1974)
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Плотина
The Dam

From the publisher: На протижении почти тридцати лет, от начала стройки до пуска первых электроблоков Нурекской ГЭС, одной из крупнейших электростанций на юге страны, работал автор этой книги – П.И. Горбачев, вначале секретарем парткома на строительстве ГЭС, а затем первым секретарем Нурекского горкома партии. В своей книги он рассказывает об основных этапах становления многонационального коллектива Всесоюзной ударной комсомольской стройки, делится накопленным опытом партийной работы, повествует о людях, нравственно выросших в атмосфере созидательного труда. Книга рассчитана на массового читателя. Pavel Gorbachev was a party official who spent most of his career working on the Nurek Dam in Tajikistan, first as secretary of the party committee and eventually as the first secretary for the city of Nurek. He played an important role coordinating the construction of the dam, the development of Nurek as a city, and relations with the surrounding villages. The memoir covers issues such as city-village relations, mobilization of labor, and the role of party activists on construction site.
Date: 1980 Source: Gorbachev, Pavel. Plotina. Moscow: Politizdat, 1980.
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Видный ученый-экономист Средней Азии (К 70-летию со дня рождения И. К. Нарзикулова) A prominent Economist of Central Asia: A 70th Birthday Festschrift for I. K. Narzikulov

From the publisher: В настоящей брошюре публикуются материалы юбилейной научной конференции, посвященной 70-летию со дня рождения академика АН Таджикской ССР, заслуженного деятеля науки республики, профессора ИХ. Нарзикулова. В ней характеризуются роль и значение И.К. Нарзикулова—первого ученого-экономиста Таджикистана, основателя экономической науки в республике, крупного организатора научных исследований, инициатора и организатора подготовки в Таджикистане экономистов высшей квалификации, а также его разносторонняя государственная и общественная деятельность. Брошюра рассчитана на широкий круг читателей. Ibadullo Narzikulov (1909-1974) was a Tajik planner, economist, and academician. Born in Samarqand, he studied at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and then worked in a number of planning positions before earning a graduate degree in economics. He played a crucial role in establishing the discipline of economics within Tajikistan and in ensuring that academic economists were consulted on questions of planning. This volume of reminiscences was put together by his colleagues after his death.
Date: 1981 Source: Saidmuradov, Kh.M. (ed.) Vidnyi uccheniy ekonomist srednei azii (K 70 letiu so dnia rozhdenia N.Z Narzikulova). Dushabe: Donish, 1981.
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Ёдномаи Маҳмуд Воҳидов Memories of Mahmud Vohidov

From the publisher: Ин маҷмӯа — ёдномэи шоирон, нависандагон ва дӯстони шодра- вон Маҳмуд Воҳидов буда, аз ҳаёт ва эҷодиёти ин ҳунарпешаи номии тоҷик ҳикоят мекунад. Mahmud (Mahmudjon) Vahidov (1939-1977) was a Tajik film and stage actor, who also toured internationally. A graduate of GITIS in Moscow, his profesional home was the Lahuti theater in Dushanbe. This volume is a collection of Vahidov's own reflections, as well reminiscences from fellow actors and other artists and intellectuals, including Loik Sherali, the historian Nizom Nurjanov, the writer Fazluddin Muhamadiev, and the film director Bension Kimegerov.
Date: 1982 Source: Sayfulloev, A. (ed.) Ednomai Mahmud Vohidov. Dushanbe: Irfon, 1982.
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Мусиқӣ дар ҳаёти ман Music in my life

From the publisher: Китоби «Мусиқӣ дар ҳаёти ман» доир ба мафҳуми мусиқӣ, таъсиру хосиятҳои он, роҷеъ ба фаъолияти бастакорони тоҷик ва марҳилаҳои инкишофи он маълумот медиҳад.
Ziyodullo Shahidi (1914-1985) was a Tajik musician, conductor, and composer. Originally trained in the Maqom tradition, Shahidi was recruited to the Moscow conservatory, where he studied with Aleksandr Lensky, Vladimir Fere, and Sergey Balasanyan - all of whom were involved in the project of "modernizing" indigenous musical traditions across the USSR. The volume collects Shahidi's essays on the music of other composers, as well as accounts of his initial recruitment, studies, work with the poet A. Dehoti, and other episodes from his career.
Date: 1986 Source: Shakhidi, Ziyodullo. Musiqi dar haeti man. Dushanbe: Irfon, 1986.
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Мактаби одамият: Баъзе масъалаҳои адабиёт
ва маънавият.
The School of humaneness: some questions of literature and spirituality

Muhammadjon Shakuri (Shakurov) (1924-2012) was a Tajik philologist and academician. He studied at the pedagogical institute in Dushanbe and later earned his kandidatskaia and doktorskaia degrees at the Institute of World Literature in Moscow. His professional home, however, remained the Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature in Dushanbe. In the late 1980s he became a leading figure in the campaign for the primacy of the Tajik language. This volume collects a number of his articles on the relationship between literature, spirituality, and morality. It also includes several pieces recounting experiences with Sadriddin Ayni, Mirzo Tursonzoda, A. Dehoti, and Mirsaid Mirshakar.
Date: 1991 Source: Shakurov, Muhammadjon. Maktabi odamiiat: ba''ze mas''alahoi adabiet va ma''naviiat. Dushanbe: Adib, 1991.
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На дипломатической службе On Diplomatic Service

From the publisher: Эта книга - воспоминания бывшего партийного и госсударственного деятеля Мирзо Рахматова, является продолжением вышедшей в издательстве «Ирфон» в 1988 г. его книги «По страницам памяти». В предлагаемом читателям издании автор рассказывает о своей работе послом СССР в Йеменской Арабской Республике и Мавритании. Mirzo Rakhmatov (1914-1998) was a Tajik party and state official. As chairman of the republic's Supreme Soviet, he was the formal head of state for the republic in the 1950s. He later served as ambassador to Yemen and Mauritania. This memoir covers his diplomatic service, including the civil war in Yemen. This is the second volume of a two part memoir, the first of which covers his early career in the party.
Date: 1991 Source: Rakhmatov, Mirzo. Na diplomaticheskoi sluzhbe Dushanbe: Irfon, 1991).
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Номзад ба раиси ҷумҳури Тоҷикистон Candidate for the leader of the Republic of Tajikistan

Rahmon Nabiev (1930-1993) was a Tajik governemnt official and political. This is a campaign brochure produced by the supporters of Rahmon Nabiev as part of his campaign for President of the Republic of Tajikistan in November 1991. It includes a brief biographical sketch, as well as a description of Nabiev's policies.
Date: 1991 Source: Nabiev, Rahmon. Nomzad ba raisi jumhuri Tojikiston. Dushanbe: 1991.
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Курбонии дузахма
Victim of the Double Blow

From the publisher: Бӯрӣ Каримови на факат дар Точикистон, балки дар собиқ Иттиҳоди Шӯравй машҳур дар ин китоб дойр ба сабабу окибатқои ҳодисаҳои баҳманмоқ, дасисабозию нотавонбинии баъзе аз хукуматдорон, чй туна сурат гирифтанн се пленуми хизби коммунист дар он рӯзҳо бо дарду алам ва дар айни замон бо мухокимаронии мантикан солим кисса пардохтааст. Балки ин китоб сарнавишти пурмочарои худи ӯ ва халқи ӯст. Buri Karimov (1958-) was a government minister in the Tajik SSR in the mid to late 1980s, reaching the post of Chairman of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan Tajik SSR) by 1989. Famous for becoming the youngest minister in the USSR at age 28 in 1987, Buri Karimov was an ambitious and charismatic late Soviet Tajik politician. He reached the post of republican Gosplan chairman in 1989, but fell out of favor and lost his Party and government positions in 1990 as a result of the February 1990 riots in Dushanbe. This memoir partly describes his political career before and after 1990, but is largely focused on the riots themselves.
Date: 1992 Source: Karimov, Buri. Kurbonii duzakhma. Dushanbe: Oriyono, 1992.
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Табаддулоти Тоҷикистон: Иборат аз се китоб
A Coup in Tajikistan (3 vols.)

From the publisher: Китоби Табаддулоти Тоҷикистон бозгуйи бисёр талхи қисматсӯзи давлату миллати тоҷикон аст, ки аз назари собиқ Раиси Шурои Олӣ ба риштаи тасвир расида.
Safarali Kenjaev (1942-1999) was a Soviet-era lawyer and prosecutor who rose to prominence in 1990-1991 as a critical voice in the Tajik Supreme Soviet and later as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet in 1991-1992. During the Tajik Civil War, Kenjaev became a leader of the pro-government "People's Front" that retook Dushanbe from the opposition in October-December 1992. This is an expanded 3 volume edition of the memoirs of Safarali Kenjaev (1942-1995), a Soviet-era prosecutor who rose to prominence and the position of Chairman of the Tajik Supreme Soviet during the Soviet collapse. In 1992 he became one of the leaders of the pro-government "People's Front" during the Tajik Civil War. This expanded memoir is focused on the civil war, although it includes events preceding the war as well.
Date: 1993 Source: Kenjaev, Safarali. Tabadduloti Tojikiston: Iborat az se kitob. Dushanbe: Fondi Kenjaev, 1993.
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Табаддулоти Тоҷикистон: Иборат аз се китоб (қ. 2)
A Coup in Tajikistan (3 vols.)

Safarali Kenjaev (1942-1999) was a Soviet-era lawyer and prosecutor who rose to prominence in 1990-1991 as a critical voice in the Tajik Supreme Soviet and later as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet in 1991-1992. During the Tajik Civil War, Kenjaev became a leader of the pro-government "People's Front" that retook Dushanbe from the opposition in October-December 1992. This is volume two of Safarali Kenjaev's extended memoir about the collapse of the USSR and the Tajik Civil War.
Date: 1993 Source: Kenjaev, Safarali. Tabadduloti Tojikiston: Iborat az se kitob (q. 2). Dushanbe: Fondi Kenjaev, 1993.
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Ёди ёри мехрубон Memories of dear friends

From the publisher: Дар китоб хотира ва қайдҳои Шоири халқии Тоҷикистон, лауреати Мукофоти давлатӣ Мирсаид Миршакар аз ҳаёт ва эҷодиёти ходимони барҷастаи адабиёти советӣ гирд оварда шудааст. Mirsaid Mirshakar (1912-1993) was a Soviet Tajik poet, writer, and government official. He was particularly known for his stories and poems for children, while his film work included Children of the Pamirs (1963). He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Tajik SSR (1961-1975), and chairman of the Tajik branch of Society for Solidarity with the Countries of Asia and Africa. This volumes includes reminiscences about other Tajik writers, among them Ayni, Lahuti, and Tursunzoda, as well as Russian writers like Kornei Chukovskii and Nikolai Tikhonov, and foreign writers such as the Punjabi novelist Gurbaksh Singh.
Date: 1993 Source: M.Mirshakar, Edi eri mehrubon (Dushanbe: Adib, 2003)
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Годы проведенные в Кремле Years in the Kremlin

Nuritdin Mukhitdinov (1917-2008) was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Uzbek SSR, First Secretary of the Uzbek Communist Party, and then member of the CPSU Politburo in the early 1960s. He later served as Soviet ambassador to a number of countries. This memoir covers his work in various Moscow-based positions, including in the Politburo.
Date: 1994 Source: Mukhitdinov, N. A. Gody provedennye v Kremle (Tashkent, 1994).

Река времени: от Сталина до Горбачева The River of Time: From Stalin to Gorbachev

Nuriddin Mukhitdinov (1917-2008) was an Uzbek Soviet party official and later ambassador to Syria. A veteran of the great patriotic war, he became first secertary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan under Khrushchev before becoming the first Central Asian to member of the Presidium (Politburo) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This volume of Mukhitdinov's memoirs provides much more information about his time as ambassador to Syria as well as his relationship with Sharof Rashidov, Frol Kozlov, Aleksei Kosygin, and others.
Date: 1994 Source: Mukhitdinov, Nuriddin. Reka vremeni: Ot Stalina do Gorbacheva. Moscow: Rusti-Rosti, 1994.

Захм бар ҷисми ватан A Wound in the Body of the Nation

From the publisher: Ноиби собик, раиси чумхур Нарзулло Дӯстов яке аз рохбарони содиқ, хирадманд ва фидокори Тоҷикистон аст, ки барон муҳофизати хукумати копунии чумҳуриамон чонбозихои зиёд кардааст. Даврае буд, ки Н. Дӯстов хамчун фарди дарачаи авпали давлат бо зумрае аз хамсафони бовафои худ барон оримию осудагии чомиа ва халк кору пайкор ме намуд. Хафтуми майи соли 1992 байни рохбарони оппозиция ва хукумати конунй ду протоколи «созиш» ба имзо расид, ки дар асоси он хукумати ба ном муросои милли таъсис ёфт. Хамин тавр дар Точикистон табаддулоти давлатй ба амал омад. Депутати халки чумҳурӣ Н. Дӯстов дар бораи ин вокеахо дар китоби худ «Захм бар чисми Ватан» батафсил накл кардааст. Narzullo Dustov (1940 - ) was largely unknown until he was chosen in November 1991 as Rahmon Nabiev's vice-presidential candidate. Dustov remained vice president until May 1992, when he was forced to resign, whereupon he joined the pro-government "People's Front" in the Tajik Civil War. This memoir is focused on the civil war and the events leading up to it, with some comment on Dustov's life before becoming vice president as well.
Date: 1994 Source: Dustov, Narzullo. Zakhm bar jismi vatan. Dushanbe: Irfon, 1994.
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Таркиш The Explosion

From the publisher: Яке аз ходимони барҷастаи сиёсӣ ва давлатӣ Ҳоҷи Ҳикматулло Насреддин (Насреддинов) китоби хотироти худро “Таркиш” номгузорӣ кардааст. Китоб марҳалаҳои гуногуни кору мушоҳидаҳои муаллифро дар сохтори ҳизбию давлатӣ ва тариқи роҳбариро дар ҷумҳурӣ дарбар мегирад. Hikmatullo Nasreddinov (1939-) was a leading Tajik politician in the early 1980s and a protege of Rahmon Nabiev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan from 1982 to 1985. Nasreddinov's memoir touches on the 1970s and early 1980s, but is largely focused on the final years of the USSR and the start of the Tajik Civil War in 1992, which he blames on the political course taken by Kahhor Mahkamov in the late 1980s.
Date: 1995 Source: Nasreddinov, Hikmatullo. Tarkish. Dushanbe: Afsona, 1995.
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Роҳи беҳбуд The path of improvement

From the publisher: «Рохи бехбуд» манмӯаи хотирот ва маколоти ҷомеашинос, иқтисоддон ва олими шинохтаи тоник - профессор Карим Абдулов мебошад. Karim Abdulov (1939-2010) was a Komsomol and Tajik Communist Party functionary in the 1970s and 1980s. As a protege of Rahmon Nabiev, he was forced out of the Tajik Party apparatus in 1988, whereupon he took up an academic career. His memoir covers his years in the Tajik Communist Party leadership, as well as the events of perestroika.
Date: 1995 Source: Abdulov, Karim. Rohi behbud. Dushanbe, 1995.
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Соли Набиев The Year of Nabiev

Ibrahim Usmonov (1948-) is a professional journalist and professor of journalism; in 1991 he became one of Rahmon Nabiev's close advisors. His memoir is dedicated to the approximately one year of Nabiev's presidency, from November 1991 to November 1992.
Date: 1995 Source: Usmon, Ibrahim. Soli Nabiev. Dushanbe: Matbaai bayni donishkadhoi oli, 1995.
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Переворот в Таджикистане
A Coup in Tajikistan

From the publisher: Автором книги «Переворот в Таджикистане» является бывший председатель Верховного Совета Республики Таджикистан Сафарали Кенджаев. В ней освещается одна из трагических страниц — трагедия, пережитая таджикским народом в результате гражданской войны. Автор стремится раскрыть причины и последствия происшедших событии, показывает истинных виновников этой трагедии таджикского народа — исламских экстремистов, религиозных фанатиков и людей, поверивших их пропаганде. Книга рассчитана на широкий круг читателей. Safarali Kenjaev (1942-1999) was a Soviet-era lawyer and prosecutor who rose to prominence in 1990-1991 as a critical voice in the Tajik Supreme Soviet and later as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet in 1991-1992. During the Tajik Civil War, Kenjaev became a leader of the pro-government "People's Front" that retook Dushanbe from the opposition in October-December 1992. This memoir is focused on the period of the civil war and the year that preceeded it, with some attention given to earlier events.
Date: 1996 Source: Kenjaev, Safarali. Perevorot v Tadzhikistane. Dushanbe: Dushanbinskii poligrafkombinat, 1996.
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Арзи дил The Heart's Desire

From the publisher: Sulton Mirzoshoev (1932-2016) was a Tajikistani politician and cultural official active in the Soviet and post-Soviet era. Originally from the Danghara region, he was educated at the teacher's college in Kulob and later at the Higher Party School in Moscow. This collection inculdes his account of the case against Tajikistan's First Secretary Tursun Uljaboev, which Mirzoshoev witnessed as a leader of the republic's Komsomol, and various episodes from the history of the republic's film industry, including an essay on the director Boris Kimegerov.
Date: 1996 Source: Sulton Mirzoshoev, Arzi dil (Dushanbe: Adib,1996).
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О прошлом с гордостью, о будущем с оптимизмом With pride about the past and optimism about the future.

Rashid Karimov (1932-) is a Tajik economist who spent 30 years as the head of the Institute of Economics of the Tajik SSR Academy of Sciences in Dushanbe. He played a leading role in the key economic debates of that period, as well as in organizing the research behind policy proposals adopted at the state level. This memoir covers his childhood outside of Leninobod (Khujand), his education in the post-war years, eventual graduate work in Moscow, and time in the institute. It also recounts stories about his family, including his sister I. R. Rakhimova, a leading party official.
Date: 1997 Source: Rakhimov, R. K. O proshlom s gordost'iu, o budushchem s optimizmom Dushanbe: NPITsenter, 1997.
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Субҳи ситоракуш The Dawn That Puts Out the Stars

From the publisher: Хулоса, таҳлил ва натиҷабардориҳои муаллиф аз воқеъаҳои охири Тоҷикистон. Ин китоб барои оммаи васеъи хонандагон, хусусан сиёсат-мадорон, таърихнависон ва барои онҳое, ки дар роҳи маърифати худшиносии милиӣ мекушанд, навишта шудааст. Asliddin Sohibnazar (1939 - ?) was a Soviet-era economist who worked in the Tajik SSR's planning agencies. During perestroika he became an opposition politician, and in 1991 was Davlat Khudonazarov's vice-presidential candidate. This memoir describes the last years of the USSR and Sohibnazar's time in politics, as well asides that extend forward and backwards in time.
Date: 1997 Source: Sohibnazar, Asliddin. Subhi Sitorakush. Dushanbe: Donish, 1997.
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Подземное чудо Ташкента Tashkent's Underground Miracle

From the publisher: Шоиноят Рахимович Шоабдурахимов родился в 1929 году в Ташкенте. В 1954 году окончил Ташкентский институт инженеров железнодорожного транспорта. Работал начальником Ташкентского отделения Среднеазиатской железной дороги, избирался заместителем Ташкентского городского Совета народных депутатов. С 1987 года по 1996 был начальником Ташкентского метрополитена. Заслуженный работник Республики Узбекистан, почетный железнодорожник. Shinoiat Shoabdurahimov (1929-?) was born in Tashkent and studied railroad engineering. He helped oversee the construction and operation of Tashkent's metro, constructed as part of the city's reconstruction following the earthquake in 1966.
Date: 1997 Source: Sh. Shoabdurahimov, Podzemnoe chudo Tashkenta (Tashkent: Shark, 1997).

Заложники империи Hostages of Empire

From the publisher: Автор документально показывает планомерное уничтожение таджикского этноса, которое достигло необычайного размаха в Узбекистане, населенном, главным образом, таджиками, и в самом Таджикистане в послевоенные годы при негласной поддержке ЦК КПСС и Союзного правительства. Sa''diniso Hakimova (1924-2015) was a Tajik surgeon, professor, and director of the Tajik SSR Ministry of Health Research Institute for the Protection of Mothers and Children. She was one of the first Tajik women to earn a medical degree (in 1943), and later the first to write a dissertation for a Doctorate of Medicine, which she defended in 1958. Her experience working on maternal and child health in Tajikistan led her to be increasingly critical of the public health system. Eventually, she came to subscribe to some of the more nationalistic theories that gained currency on the eve of the Soviet collapse, blaming public health issues on a concerted campaign of genocide carried out by Uzbeks with the tacit support of the Soviet government. This volume nevertheless contains valuable insights into the workings of the health system in the Tajik SSR, as well as documentary sources from the author’s personal archive.
Date: 1998 Source: Hakimova, Sa''diniso. Zalozhniki imperii. Dushanbe, 1998.
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Миёни обу оташ Between Water and Fire

From the publisher: Ин китоб хотироти муҷаз ва мухтасари Қозидомулло‐Ҳоҷӣ Акбари Тураҷонзода фақат аз боби воқеаҳои асосии пойиз (тирамоҳ)‐и соли 1991 ва баҳори соли 1992 то таъсиси Ҳукумати Муросои Миллӣ дар Тоҷикистон мебошад. Муаллиф бо самимият ва ошкоро аз ҳаводиси шуми он солҳо ва чеҳраҳои ҳақиқии коргардонҳои аслии гирдиҳамоиҳои Майдонҳои Шаҳидон ва Озодӣ парда бармедорад. Hoji Akbar Turajonzoda (1954- ) was the influential "Qazi Kalon" or Chief Mufti of the Tajik SSR during perestroika. In 1991 and 1992 he sided with the opposition forces challenging Rahmon Nabiev's government; this short memoir covers the period of time between fall 1991 and the spring of 1992.
Date: 1998 Source: Turajonzoda, Hoji Akbari. Miyoni obu otash.
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То ба кай об аз таги ях меравад? How Long will the Water Keep Flowing Under the Ice?

From the publisher: Ман сулоли "То ба кай об аз таги ях меравад?"-ро баъд аз дахуним сол такрор мекунам ва боз рӯ ба ҷомеа меорам. Ин мақолаҳо натиҷаи заҳматҳои хоксоронаи муаллиф дар роҳи худшиносии милиӣ мебошад. Ҳар яке аз онҳо боиси баҳсу вокунише дар ҷомаи Ҷумҳурӣ қарор гирифтаанд ва гувохи онанд, ки ин талошҳо дар роҳи Озодӣ ва Истиқлоли кишвар фаро расид. Mirboboi Mirrahim (Mirbobo MIrrahimov) is a translator and expert in pre-Islamic religions. During perestroika, he became famous for his writings on the Tajik language and was one of the first writers to publicly discuss the status of Samarqand and Bukhara. He also became one of the cofounders of Rastokhez, Tajikistan's first independent political organization. This memoir, published during Mirrahim's exile in Iran, reprints a series of his articles, along with commentary and critique of the work of others.
Date: 1998 Source: Mirrahim, Mirboboi. To ba kai ob az tagi iakh meravad? Tehran: Atlas, 1998.
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Трудный путь к знанию
The Long Road to Knowledge

From the publisher: Воспоминания крупнейшего советского востоковедад, академика АН Таджикистана Б.И. Искандарова - повествование о жизненном пути ученого, неустанном поиске знания и освоении "белых пятен" в истории Средней Азии, Памира и Гиндукуша. Автор рассказывает о трудной жизни в памирских кишлаках в 20-е годы, учебе в знаменитон ЛИФЛИ, участии в Великой Отечственной войне, многолетней работе в Институте истории АН Таджикистана (директором его Б.И. Исканадров был с 1962 по 1994 г.), встречах со многими замечательными учеными. Bahodur Iskandarov (1912-2014) was a historian and head of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Tajik SSR from 1962 to 1994. These memoirs cover his childhood in the Pamirs, his education in Leningrad, service during the Great Patriotic War, and epsidoes from his career as a researcher.
Date: 1999 Source: Iskandarov, Bahodur. Trudnyi put' k znaniu. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Moskovskogo universiteta, 2000.
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Ёде аз Вализода Memories of Valizoda

From the publisher: Дар китоб ёдномаҳое гирд оварда шудаанд, ки ба калами олимон, шоиру нависандагон, дӯстону наздикони Саидалй Вализода мутааллиқанд. Китоб оммаи хонандагонро ба хислатҳои наҷиби ин адиб ва ҳунарманди халқи тоҷик шинос намуда,, аз мақоми хоси шоир дар таърихи адабиёти шифоҳии халқи тоҷик ва эътирофу қадршиносии мардум иисбат ба фарзанди баруманди халқ нақл мекунад.
Saidali Valizoda (1900-1971) was a Tajik poet, musician, performer, and educator. After working at a theatre in Stalinabad he returned to Hovaling, his home district, in 1938, where he worked at a boarding school (internat). He continued writing and publishing in the decades after the Great Patriotic War. This volume collects recollections about Valizoda and poems written in his honor by writers like Boki Rahimzoda, Jolol Ikramov, Abdusalom Dekhoti, and others.

Date: 2000 Source: Cholishev, Soat (ed). Yode az Valizoda. Dushanbe: Irfon, 2000.
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Исповедь Confessions

Dr. Masud Rasuli (1925 - 1996) was an important Tajik and Uzbek literary scholar, who lived and worked in Samarkand and Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He worked as the Head of the Russian Literature Department of the Institute of Language and Literature at the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences.  These memoirs cover the majority of the Soviet period, including his childhood. The book offers an insight into Central Asia's reformist jadid movement, many members of which were repressed during the Stalinist period.
Date: 2000 Source: Rasuli, Ma''sud. Ispoved. Tashkent: O'Qituvchi, 2000.
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Едномаи Мухаммад Осими Memories of Osimi

From the publisher: Едномаи шодравон Мухаммад Осимиро ашхоси гуногун—хешу ақрабо, дӯстону шогирдон, хамкорону ҳаммаслакон—олимони варзидаву шииохтаи тоҷик нигоштааид. Осимӣ солҳои тӯлонӣ сарварии яке аз фарҳангистонҳои бонуфуз — Акадеиияи илмҳои Чумхурии Тоҷикистонро бар ӯҳда дошт, аз ни рӯ, табиист, ки бештари муаллифони хотирот кормаидон ва аъзоёни ин боргоҳи илм мебошанд. Еддоштҳои олнмони арчманд лахлаҳои номаълуми хаст ва фаъолияти Осимиро ба хонанда равшанӣ сохта, барои тарҳрезии симои ин абармарди нотакрор ва фардн сарсурпурдаи роҳи илму фарҳанг кӯмак мерасоианд. Muhammad Osimi (Osimov) 1920-1996, was a Tajik philosopher, educator, and government official. Born in Khujand, he was a graduate of the State University of Uzbekistan in Tashkent and saw service in Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War. He was the first rector of the Polytechnic Institute in Stalinabad (Dushanbe), and also served as Minister of Education. This volume is a collection of essays about Muhammad Osimi published by colleagues, students, and family members, including Rashid Rahimov and Iusufbek Rustambekov
Date: 2000 Source: Ashurov, Gaffor (ed.) Ednomai ustod Osimi. Dushanbe: Irfon, 2000.
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Жизнь отданная народу A life devoted to the people

From the publisher: Автор этой историко-энциклопедической и автобиографической книги на основе документов, анализа материалов, воспоминаний саратников, ученников и воспитанников Джаббора Расулова, раскрывает его деятельность на посту первого секретаря ЦК Компартии Таджикистана и Председателя Совета Министров ТаджикскойССР. Показывает образ Джаббора Расулова, как стойкого, принципиального коммуниста, талантливого, умелого организатора и воспитателя масс, выдающегося партийного деятеля Таджикистана, человека, посвятившего полностью свою сознательную жизнь служению трудовому народу, развитию и преобразованию республики. Jabbor Rasulov (1913-1982) was a Tajik party and government official, and first secretary of the Tajik SSR Communist Party from 1961 until his death in 1982. An agronomist by training, he worked in the Komsomol and was briefly (1960-61) the USSR's ambassador to Togo. This volume includes an essay by the historian and former party official Iskandar Kalandarov as well as shorter reminiscences from former colleagues and friends, including Sulton Mirzoshoev, Rustam Yusufbekov.
Date: 2000 Source: I.K. Kalandarov, Zhizn' otdannaia narodu (Dushanbe: Institut Politicheskih Issledovanii Kompartii Tadzhikistana, 2000).
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Абдурахим Ходжибаев: страницы короткой жизни Abdurahim Khodzhibaev: Pages From a Short Life

Abdurahim Khodzhibaev (1900-1938) was the first Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Tajik SSR. An early member of the Communist Party in Khujand, he rose to prominence in the 1930s before falling victim to the Great Terror. This memoir was written by his daughter, Baroat Khodzhibaeva.
Date: 2000 Source: B.A. Khodzhibaeva. Abdurakhim Khodzhibaev: stranitsy korotkoi zhizny (Khujand, 2000).
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Жизнь в искусстве A Life in Art

Ashur Haydarov (1916-1988) was a Tajik artist. Born in Samarqand, he studied with Pavel Benkov, then went to work at the newspaper Lenin Yuli, where one of his colleagues was future First Secretary of Uzbekistan Sharof Rashidov. After the outbreak of war in 1941, Haydarov volunteered for service and was comissioned as a Second Liutenant. He was taken prisoner but escaped and joined partisan forces, eventually joining an NKVD detachment. After the war in 1949 Haydarov was arrested for supposed collaboration and imprisoned until 1955. He subsequently made a succesful aristic career but was not formally rehabilitated until 1989. The volume includes his (unfinished) memoirs, focusing on his youth, wartime service, and imprisonment, as well as articles from colleagues and friends.
Date: 2001 Source: Haydarov, Ashur. Zhizn' v iskusstve. Dushanbe, 2001.
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Власть времени The Power of Time

From the publisher: Публикуемые мемуары выдающегося государственного и общественного деятеля Таджикистана Назаршо Додхудоева (1915—2000) знакомят читателя с отдельными эпизодами и людьми, связанными с жизнью страны в наиболее интересный период новейшей истории Центральной Азии. Эти драгоценные свидетельства складываются в рассказ о судьбе паренька с далекого Памира, сумевшего благодаря несомненным качествам лидера, беззаветной любви к Родине и исключительному уважению к людям оказать влияние на развитие республики в середине XX столетия. Nazarsho Dodhudoev (1915-2000) was a party and state official. Born in the Rushan district of what would later become the Gorno Badakshanskaia Avtonomnaia Oblast' (GBAO), he began his career as a teacher before joining the Komsomol and eventually the NKVD before embarking on a state and party career in Stalinabad (Dushanbe) and Moscow. He lost his position in the purge that followed the cotton scandal in Tajikistan in 1961. The memoir covers his childhood, education, the political effects of the purges, and his work under Bobojon Gafurov, Tursun Uljaboev, and others.
Date: 2001 Source: Dodkhudoev, Nazorsho. Vlast' vremeni. Almaty, 2001.
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Афғонистони шоҳӣ Royal Afghanistan

From the publisher: Хонандаи гироми! Китобе, ки дар даст доред хотираҳои сафари як ҷавони тоҷиканд, ки дар тули се сол (1971-73) дар Афғонистон ба ҳайси тарҷумон ҳамроҳи маъданшиносони Шӯрави хидмат кардааст. Муаллиф гохдо ба тартиби рӯзҳо риоя карда, вале аксаран ба тарзи умумият додани воқеоту ҳавводиси аз сар гузаронида, дидаву шунидаҳояшро рӯи коғаз овардааст. Китоб инчунин руҷуъҳои муаллифро ба гузаштаву зиндагии муосири мардуми тоҷику афган дар бар мегирад. Аз ин ҷиҳат ҳам баробари дигар фазилатҳояш қобили таваҷҷӯҳи хонандагон хоҳад гардид. H. Asozoda (1941-2014) was a prominent literary historian and educator who served two tours as an interpreter in Afghanistan. This book covers the author's first period in the country, from 1971-1973, when he accompanied a team of Soviet geologists conducting exploratory works around the country. It includes accounts of interactions with ordinary Afghanistanis, as well as cultural and political figures. This volume also includes the author's impressions of Afghanistani politics during a period which saw the end of the monarchy and the foundation of a republic by Mohammed Daoud.
Date: 2002 Source: Asozoda, Khudoinazar. Afghonistoni shohy. Dushanbe: Devashtich, 2002.
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Афғонистони инқилобӣ Revolutionary Afghanistan

From the publisher: Китоби «Афғонистони инқилобӣ», ки дар даст доред, идомаи навиштаи пешинаи муаллиф бо номи «Афгонистони шоҳӣ» (Д.: Деваштич, 2002) мебошад. Дар ин ҷо сухан аз ҳаводису воқеоте меравад, ки нигоранда дар тӯли солҳои 1978-1981 шоҳиди онҳо будааст. Китоби «Афғонистони инқилобӣ» барои устодону донишҷӯёни таърихшинос, барои ҳамаи ононе, кимехоҳанд аз тақдири Афғонистону мардуми афгон дар солҳои 1978-81 иттилое дошта бошанд, мароқовару ҷолиб мебошад. Ин китобест, ки бо усули қисса андар қисса нигошта шудааст. Аз ин рӯ онро бояд аз ибтидо то интиҳо хонд. H. Asozoda (1941-2014) was a prominent literary historian and educator who served two tours as an interpreter in Afghanistan. This is the second of H. Asozoda's Afghanistan memoirs, covering the author's service as an interpreter after the Saur Revolution (April 1978) until 1981. The book discusses interactions with other interpreters, advisors, and officers, relations with Afghanistanis, daily life among Soviets working in Afghanistan, and prominent political figures like Hafizullah Amin and Nur Mohammed Taraki. The book also provides insights into the key political developments of those years as seen by an in interpreter.
Date: 2003 Source: Asozoda, Khudoinazar. Afghonistoni inqiloby. Dushanbe: Devashtich, 2003.
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Мукотибаи Садриддин Айнӣ ва Абулқосим Лоҳутй. The correspondence of Sadriddin Ayni and Abdulqosem Lahuti

From the publisher: Ин китоб аз мактубҳои ду устоди бузург, Қаҳрамони Тоҷикистон Садриддин Айнӣ ва Абулқосим Лоҳутӣ фароҳам омадааст. Мактубҳо қимати илмиву адабӣ ва таърихӣ доранд.
This is a collection of correspondence between two of Soviet Tajikistan’s most prominent writers: Sadriddin Ayni (1878–1954) and Abdulqosim Lahuti (1887-1957). While both became part of the Tajik literary pantheon, neither had their primary residence in the republic. Ayni spent most of his life in Samarqand, while Lahuti lived in Moscow with his wife, Cecilia Bonu. These letters, held at the Archive of the Rudaki Institute of Literature in Dushanbe, were first published during the Soviet era. This second, more complete edition, includes additional letters from the period of the terror, when Ayni in particular was put under a great deal of pressure. The publication was prepared and edited by Khursheda Otahonova.
Date: 2003 Source: Otakhonova, Khursheda, (ed). Mukotibai Sadriddin Aini va Abulqosim Luhuti. Dushanbe: Devashtich, 2003.
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Арбоби барчастаи давлати. J Rasulov: An Outstanding Government Official

Jabbor Rasulov (1913-1982) was a Tajik party and government official, and first secretary of the Tajik SSR Communist Party from 1961 until his death in 1982. An agronomist by training, he worked in the Komsomol and was briefly (1960-61) the USSR's ambassador to Togo. This volume includes reminscences and essays by historians and party officials, including Shodi Shabdolov, the head of Tajikistan's communist party after independence.
Date: 2003 Source: Masov, R.M., ed. Arbobi barjastai davlati. Dushanbe: Irfon, 2003.
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Ахтарон. Маҷмӯи ёддоштҳо Stars. Collected memoirs

From the publisher: Китоби нависанда Холмурод Шарифов “Ахтарон" асари ёддоштӣ буда, дар он муаллиф маҳорати нигорандагии худро бо нозукиҳояш намоиш додааст. “Ахтарон" нусхаи такмилёфтаи ёддоштҳои мусанниф “Оламафрӯзон" (Душанбе, “Маориф" 1992 ва “Ахтарони фарҳанг" (Душанбе, “Ирфон” 2002) буда, дар он иловаҳои зиёд ворид гардидаанд. Бахшҳои ёддоштӣ роҷеъ ба Суҳайлӣ Ҷавҳаризода, Мирсаид Миршакар, Раҳим Ҷалил ва Одина Ҳошим иловаҳои тозаанд. Ёддоштнависӣ аз жанрҳои душвори адабиёт маҳсуб ёфта, он диди хос, дарки амиқи матлаб, маҳорати фавқулоддаро дар масоили доги умдаи рӯз талаб мекунад. Омӯхтаву андӯхтаҳои муаллиф дар шакли ёддоштҳои ҷолибу хотирнишин ва латифу ҳикматангез рӯи когаз омадаву дар ҳамин китоби пурмӯҳтаво манзури хонандагони сершумор, хусусан омӯзгорон мегардад. Holmurod Sharifov (1927-2017) was a Tajik-Soviet party and government official. Originally from the area of Panjikent, he and his family were resettled in the Vaksh valley in 1937; after 1946 he embarked on a career in the Komsomol and later in the Party. He eventually earned a kandidatskaia degree from the Academy of Social Sciences of the CPSU. He served as Deputy Minister of Culture and Central Committee Secretary for Culture of the Communist Party of Tajikistan from 1968-1979. He was also a member of the Soviet Committee for Solidarity with the Countries of Asia and Africa. This book collects previously published recollections about Soviet-Tajik cultural figures, including those he traveled with as part of official trips to Afghanistan, the USA, Canada, Bulgaria, and beyond. Among the many figures discussed in the book are Sadriddin Ayni, Mirzo Tursunzoda, the film director Boris Kimergerov, and Bobojon Gafurov.
Date: 2004 Source: Sharifov, Holmurod. Akhtaron. Majmui eddoshtho. Dushanbe: Sharqi ozod, 2004.
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Чеҳраҳои шинохта Familiar Faces

From the publisher: Дар ин китоб паҳлуҳои гуногуни эҷодиёти чанд тан аз адибони барҷастаи муосири тоҷик, аз ҷумла Зуфархон Ҷавҳари, Садриддин Айнӣ, Абулқосим Лоҳутӣ, Пайрав Сулаймонӣ, Мирзо Турсунзода, Раҳим Ҷалил, Мӯъмин Қаноат ва дигарон мавриди баррасӣ қарор гирифтааст. Khursheda Otakhonova (1932-2016) was a Tajik literary historian, known in particular for her work on Abdulqassim Lahuti and Sadriddin Ayni. This volume collects a number of articles by Khursheda Otakhonova on Tajik writers like Sadriddin Ayni, A. Lahuti, Mirzo Tursunzoda, Sotim Ulughzoda, and others. The second half of volume includes her personal recollections about Mohammed Osimi, Tursunzoda, Abdullojon Gafforov, Habibullohon Saidmurodov, and Suhayli Javharizoda.
Date: 2004 Source: Otakhonova, Khursheda. Chehrahoi shinokhta. Dushanbe: Devashtich, 2004
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Дорогу осилит идущий The traveler will conquer the road.

From the publisher: Предлагаемая вниманию читателя книга по-своему уникальна. Ее автор - академик, профессор, Заслуженный работник Таджикистана Н.Х.Якубов более 16 лет являлся ректором Таджикского политехнического институт (ныне Таджикский технический университет). За эти годы им накоплен богатейший опыт педагогической научной, организационной работы. Под его непосредственным руководством в стенах этоге престижного вуза страны подготовлено немало талантливых специалистов. О них, о своих наставниках и о себе рассказывает Наим Холович в данной книге. Он - плод многолетних наблюдений и размышлений авторе о воспитании, преемственности поколений, о науке, призвании, верности избранной профессии и о миогол другом.
Naim Iakubov (1934-) is a Tajik architect and urban planner who was or many years the rector of the Polytechnic Institute in Dushanbe. This memoir covers his childhood and education in Stalinabad/Dushanbe in the 1940s, high education in Moscow during the 1950s, and his work at the polytechnic institute in the decades that followed. The memoir also discusses his family at some lengths, as well as the careers of his students and colleagues.
Date: 2004 Source: Iakubov, Naim. Dorogu osilit iduschii. Dushanbe, 2004.
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Номaҳо Letters

From the publisher: Ин китоб номаҳои то имрўз ба даст омадаи Абулќосим Лохутиро ба адибони тоҷик, ҳамдиёрон, дўстон, аҳли хонавода, хонандагон ва мухлисони ашъори ў дар бар кардааст. Номаҳо бо самимият, ҳарорати дил ва эҳтиром навишта шудаанд. Abdulqosim Lahuti (1887-1957) was an Iranian/ Tajik writer. Forced to emigrate to the USSR for political reasons, he became a leading figure of Tajik letters and his works were translated into Russian and many other languages. This collection, assembled and annotated by Khursheda Otahonova, consists of letters written by Lahuti to writers in the USSR and abroad, including Sadriddin Ayni, Mirzo Tursunzoda, A. Dekhoti, and Romain Rolland.
Date: 2004 Source: Kh. Otakhonova (ed.), Nomaho (Dushanbe: Adib, 2004)
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Ёдномаи устод Осими (бо истикболи 85 солагии зодруз) Memories of Osimi

Muhammad Osimi (Osimov) 1920-1996, was a Tajik philosopher, educator, and government official. Born in Khujand, he was a graduate of the State University of Uzbekistan in Tashkent and saw service in Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War. He was the first rector of the Polytechnic Institute in Stalinabad (Dushanbe), and also served as Minister of Education. This selection is from a volume published on the 85th anniversary of his birth, but the scan only includes Osimi's own recollections about Sadriddin Ayni.
Date: 2005 Source: Salimov, N.Iu. Yodnomai ustod Osimi. Khujand: Nuri ma''rifat, 2005.
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Некӣ фаромӯш намешавад Kindness will not be forgotten

From the publisher: Устод Фаттоҳ Маҷидӣ баробари шеьргӯӣ дар наср ҳам қувва меозмояд. Ҳикояву воқеаҳои хурд-хурд менависад. Ӯ дар ин китоби "Некӣ фаромӯш намешавад" асосан дидаву шунидаҳои худро ба тарзи ҳикоятҳо ба қалам додааст, ки аксарияти онҳо аҳамияти калони ахлоқӣ, тарбиявӣ ва ҳатто таърихӣ доранд. Fattoh Majidi (1931-) grew up in Samarqand and studied agriculture, eventually defending a doctorate and being appointed professor. He was also a poet. This short pamphlent consists of three parts. The first recounts episodes from his own life or of people he was close to; the second recounts episodes from literary and artistic life. The third consists of fictional or fictionalized vignettes.
Date: 2005 Source: Fattoh Majidi, Neki faromush nameshavad (Samarqand: Zarafshon, 2005).
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Худое, худро бишиносам To know oneself and to know God

From the publisher: Олим ва нависандаи маъруф Расул Ҳодизода дар китоби хотироташ ҳамзамон бо тасвири марҳилаҳои зиндаги ва фаъолияти худ дар бораи воқеахри таърихии илму маданият ва симохри шинохтаи адабиёт, илм ва фарх,анги тоҷик хркоятхри ҷолиб аз диду дили худ нақл намудааст. Чунонки муаллиф гуфтааст, ин китоб "еде аз саҳифаҳои таърихи замой ва одамон аст", ки 6а хонандаи имруз тақдим мешавад. Rasul Hodizoda (1928-2010) was a writer, translator, and scholar. Born in Samarkand, he studied in Tashkent, worked briefly in radio, and later did graduate work in Moscow. Hodizoda spent most of his career at the Rudaki Institute in Dushanbe, but was also active in the Union of Writers and published in all-union publications such as Druzhba Narodov. These particularly detailed memoirs cover his childhood, education, and career. Hodizoda also provides detail on his experiences writing a novel about Ahmad Donish and his relationship with mentors like Sadriddin Ayni, Mikhail Andreev, and Aleksandr Semenov, as well as contemporaries like Muhamadjon Shakurov (Shakuri), Shavqat Niezi, Semen Lipkin, and Mikhail Zand.

Date: 2006 Source: Hodizoda, Rasul. Khudoe, khudro bishinosam. Dushanbe: Devashtich, 2006.
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Ашк ва ханда
Love and laughter

From the publisher: Зиндагии инсон миёни талхиву ширищо сипарй мешавад ва шояд мо кам ба он таваҷҷӯҳ дорем ва на ҳама вақт ба қадри он мерасем. Дар ишрищои зиндагӣ ёде аз талхщост ва дар талхиҳои он намакест аз ширищо. Лаҳзаҳое, ки зиндагии ман ва хонаводаам ҳамчун ашк дар сари мижгон меистод ва ҳар дам номулоиматщо ва нохушояндщое дар як сарзамини дигар бар сари бандаи гариб таҳдид дошт, ба тасвири талхиву ширищои рузгор ва кори баргардони ҳикматҳо ва латифаҳои беҳтарини дунё пардохтам ва он душворщоро бо хандаҳои гиряолуд ороставу пироста сохтам.

Mirboboi Mirrahim (Mirbobo MIrrahimov) is a translator and expert in pre-Islamic religions. During perestroika, he became famous for his writings on the Tajik language and was one of the first writers to publicly discuss the status of Samarqand and Bukhara. He also became one of the cofounders of Rastokhez, Tajikistan's first independent political organization. This volume of his memoirs, however, covers earlier years in the 1970s and 1980s and describes his experiences at university in Dushanbe, interactions with Tajik poets, and commentary on other writers' works.
Date: 2007 Source: Mirrahim, Mirboboi. Ashk va khanda. Dushanbe: Bokhtar, 2007.
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Ёди Ёри Меҳрубон
(Ёдномае аз устоди шаҳир Абдуқодир Маниёзов)
Memory of a beloved friend (recollections about the great teacher Abduqodir Maniyozov)

From the publisher: Калами донишмандону фархехтагони тоҷик тааллук дорад ва онхо ба шинохам яке аз чехраҳои азиз ва мӯьтабари Тоҷикистон, фарзанди хирадманд, устоди донишманду ровии нотакрор, узви вобастаи Академиям илмхои Ҷумҳури Тоҷикистон, узви пайвасгаи Фарҳангистони забои ва адаби форсим Ҷумхурии Исломии Эрон, сарвари фахрии Пажӯҳишюхи забои ва адабиёги баноми Рӯдакии Академиям илмхои Ҷумхурии Тоҷикистон, раиси Кумитан иҷроияи «Пайванд» Абдукодир Маниёзов бахшида шудаанд. Муаллифон зимни хотирот ва аидепгарони аз бехтарин сифатҳои инсонй ва халокияг, озодкорй ва озодандешии ин озодмарди ҷомеа, чехраи инсонй ва шарофати азалии устоди зиндаёд. кобилияти ташкилогчигии илмй ва хислатҳои огмфаи рохбарй ва шеьршиносиву сухандонии ровии забони тоҷикӣ ёд овардаанд. Ҳамчунин дар китоб аз хотироту ёддошт, таълифот ва тарҷумаи бадей, ки аз шуглхои пайвасгаи устод Абдукодир Маниёзов буданд, ба хонандаи азиз як-ду намуна пешкаш мешавад. «Ёди ёри мехрубои» бо ташаббус ва сарпарастии Сафорати Ҷумҳурии Исломии Эрон дар Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикисгон, шахсан бо дасттирии Сафири Кабири Ҷумхурии Исломии Эрон дар Ҷумхурии Тоҷикистон, ҷаноби окои доктор Алиасгар Амири Шсърдӯст ба нашр расидааст. Abduqodir Maniyozov (1930-2008) was a Tajik philologist. Maniyozov was among the first graduates of the State University in Stalinabad (Dushanbe); from 1972-2000 he was the Director of the Rudaki Institue of Language and Literature. Maniyozov was also the deputy editor of the Tajik Soviet Encyclopedia. This volume collects reminiscences from colleagues and writers, including Ali Bobojon, Horsheda Otahonova, and Ibrohim Usmonov. It also includes short sketches from Maniezov’s unfinished memoirs, covering his childhood during the Great Patriotic War.

Date: 2008 Source: Davronov, Abduvash (ed). Yodi Yori Mehrubon. Yodnomae az ustodi shahir Abduqodir Maniyozov. Dushanbe: Pazhuhishgohi farkhangi forsi-tojiki, 2008.
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Он чӣ аз саргузашт
The stuff of memoirs

From the publisher: Ин китоби охирини Ҷалол Икромӣ мебошад. Нависанда дар бораи солҳои наврасиаш, хешу табораш, революсияи сосиалистии Бухоро ва сарнагун шудани республикаи сосиалистии Бухоро, тараққиёт ва сабзиши республикаи сосиалистии Тоҷикистон сухан меронад. Саҳифаҳои зиёде ба солҳои мудҳиши 1937-39 бахшида шудааст. Jalol Ikromi (1909-1993) was one of Soviet Tajikistan's most famous writers. This memoir covers his childhood in Bukhara as well his eventual move to Stalinabad (Dushanbe). A substantial portion of the memoir is devoted to the effect of the great terror on his own family and on the intelligentsia more generally. The final pages contain his reflections on Perestroika and the collapse of the USSR.
Date: 2009 Source: Ikromi, Jalol. On chi az sarguzasht. Dushanbe, 2009.
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Вақте амр қонунро иваз мекунад. The Times When Life Changes Law

From the publisher: Дар ин китоб мақола ва мусоҳибаҳои матбуотии Ҳабибов Абдулло Ҳабибович гирд омадаанд, ки хонандаро бо воқеияти таърихи на чандон дури ҳаёти ҷомеаи Тоҷикистон ошно мекунанд. Abdullo Habibov (1940-) was a Soviet Party worker, educated in Tajikistan and in Moscow, where he attended the Academy of Social Sciences of the CC CPSU and received the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences. In the 1980s he was appointed the head of the "Political Section" of the Tajik Ministry of the Interior. He later came to prominence during the February 1990 riots in Dushanbe, when he supported Buri Karimov and the massed protestors. This volume collects a series of his writings about the late Soviet period and a number of explicatory interviews.
Date: 2009 Source: Habibov, Abdullo. Vaqte amr qonunro ivaz mekunad. Dushanbe: Vatanparvar, 2009.
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Меъмори истиқлоли Тоҷикистон Architect of Tajikistan's Independence

From the publisher: Хонандаи гиромӣ, китобе, ки дар даст дорӣ, маҷмӯаест, аз навиштаҳои донишмандон ва журналистони шинохтаи кишвар аз рӯзгор ва пайкори шахсияти мубориз ва донишманду маорифпарвари машҳур Тоҳири Абдуцаббор, ки ба ҳангоми беморӣ ва даргузашти ин абармарди Тоҷикистон бунёдгузори эҳёи истиқлол ва мақоми расмии забони форсим тоҷикй дар замони нав ба табъ расидааст. Хамчунин дар ин маҷмӯа чанде аз навиштаҳои ин донишманд барои нахустин бор дар шакли маҷмӯа ба дам оварда шудааст. Tohir Abdujabbor (1946-2009) is best known as the founder of Rastokhez (Rebirth), the first independent political organization in Tajikistan, which campaigned for the primacy of the Taiik language, greater political and economic autonomy and, eventually, independence. Abdujabbor trained as an economist, earning his kandidatskaia degree at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow with a dissertation on Pakistan; he later served as an economic adviser and translator in Afghanistan. During the civil war he fled first to Tehran, later settling in Bishkek before returning to Tajikistan in 2005. Unfortunately, he did not leave behind any memoirs. This volume includes some insightful reminiscences about Abdujabbor by his former colleagues and associates, as well as some his key writings from the late Soviet period and beyond.
Date: 2010 Source: Kamilzoda, Ahmadsho (ed). Me''mori istiqloli Tojikiston. Dushanbe, 2010.
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По зову времени Answering the call of time

From the publisher: М.Бекматов - личность в нашей республике известная. Он участник Великой Отечественной войны, долгое время проработавший на ответственных должностях в различных партийных и хозяйственных органов г.Куляба и Кулябской области. Сейчас он на пенсии. Но несмотря на это продолжает активную жизненную позицию. На суд читателя он представляет свою документальную повесть, в которой подробно рассказывает о тех русских людях, которые в трудные для Таджикистана годы приехали в Таджикистан и помогали в его становлении и развитии. Многие из них также как и автор повести трудились в высших партийных и хозяйственных органах власти. Mirzo Bekmatov was born in 1924 in Shurabad district. He worked as a teacher and joined the Red Army in 1943, earning a commission as an officer. He later made a career as a party official, serving as First Secretary of the Kulyab Oblast from 1965-1974. This book is meant to honor Russians who came to Tajikistan during the Soviet period as party officials, engineers, or other specialists.
Date: 2010 Source: Bekmatov, Mirzo. Po zovu vremeni. Dushanbe: Irfon, 2010.
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Джалол Икрами: Неизвестные страницы Jalol Ikrami: Unknown Pages

Jonon Ikrami (1936-) is a chemist and the son of writer Jalol Ikromi. In these memoirs he recounts episodes from the life of his father, the Tajik author Jalol Ikrami. The memoirs cover the authors’ childhood, the 1937 purges, and Jalol Ikrami’s relationship with other Soviet and Central Asian political and literary figures like Sharaf Rashidov, Habibullo Nazarov, Mukhtar Auezov, Mikhail Zand, and Marietta Shaginyan. The memoirs complement Jalol Ikrami’s own memoirs.
Date: 2010 Source: Ikromi, Jonon. Jalol Ikrami: Neizvestnye stranitsy. Dushanbe: SDC, 2010.
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Пантуркизм ва сарнавишти таръихии Тоҷикистон
Panturkism and the Rewriting of Tajik History

From the publisher: Китоби нави олими маъруф, академик Муҳаммадҷони Шакурии Бухороӣ «Пантуркизм ва сарнавишти таърихии тоҷикон» рисолаи «Фитнаи инқилоб дар Бухоро» ва силсиланигоштаҳои солҳои гуногуни муаллифро дар бар мегирад, ки посухест ба даъвоҳои бузургманишии олимону адибон, сиёсатмадорону фарҳангиёни туркгаро ва таҳрифгарони забону адабиёт ва таърихи фарҳанги тољик дар давраҳои гуногуни замони шуравӣ. Muhammadjon Shakuri (Shakurov) (1924-2012) was a Tajik philologist and academician. He studied at the pedagogical institute in Dushanbe and later earned his kandidatskaia and doktorskaia degrees at the Institute of World Literature in Moscow. His professional home, however, remained the Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature in Dushanbe. In the late 1980s he became a leading figure in the campaign for the primacy of the Tajik language. This memoir revisits episodes from the late Soviet period related to perestroika and the reconsideration of the Soviet past, including the status of Samarqand and Bukhara. It also reproduces contemporary documents.
Date: 2010 Source: Shakuri, Muhammadjoni. Panturkizm va sarnavishti tar''ikhii Tojikiston. Dushanbe: Adib, 2011.
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Толей баланд Great Fortune

From the publisher: Автор книги «Счастливая судьба» - ученый, писатель, общественный и государственный деятель Холмурод Шарифов рассказывает в публицистической форме о своих путешествиях во многие страны мира. Holmurod Sharifov (1927-2017) was a Tajik-Soviet party and government official. Originally from the area of Panjikent, he and his family were resettled in the Vaksh valley in 1937; after 1946 he embarked on a career in the Komsomol and later in the Party. He eventually earned a kandidatskaia degree from the Academy of Social Sciences of the CPSU. He served as Deputy Minister of Culture and Central Committee Secretary for Culture of the Communist Party of Tajikistan from 1968-1979. He was also a member of the Soviet Committee for Solidarity with the Countries of Asia and Africa. This volume collects Holmurod Sharifov's travel writings, including his accounts of trips to Iran, Afghanistan, Cuba, Canada, and Bulgaria, as well as destinations within the USSR.
Date: 2010 Source: Sharifov, Kholmurod. Tolei baland. Dushanbe: Pazhuhishgohi farsi-tojiki, 2010.
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Дил мехоҳад, ки гӯяму гирям My heart wishes for me to speak and to weep

From the publisher: Ин китоб аз ду қисм иборат буда, қисми аввал «Дил мехоҳад, ки гӯяму гирям” ном дорад. Муаллиф дар он хотираҳои айёми тифлӣ ва ҷавснии худро рӯйи коғаз овардааст, ки ба воқеаҳои соли 1937 марбут аст. Селоби хунолудаи даврони сталинй оилаи ин зиёии тоҷикро низ ба гирдоби худ кашида буд. Муаллиф ҳодисаҳоеро ёдовар шудааст, ки падари ғамхору меҳрубон ва модари мискину бенавояш аз сар'гузаронидаанд..У дар симои модар тоқат, матонат, сидиу вафо ва покии дили як нафар зани ба фоҷиаи мудҳиш рӯбарӯшудаи тоҷикро таҷассум намудааст. Қисми дуюм аз хотираҳо ва очеркҳои илмию оммавӣ иборат буда, фаъолияти илмию адабии чеҳраҳои намоёни илму фарҳангро фаро гирифтаанд. Инҳо Мирзо Турсунзода, Носирҷон Маъсумй, Муҳаммад Осимӣ, Аҳрор Мухторов, Раҷаб Амонов ва дигарон мебошанд. Khursheda Otakhonova was a Tajik literary historian, known in particular for her work on Abdulqassim Lahuti and Sadriddin Ayni. The first part of these memoirs, initially published in Sadoi Sharq,discusses the effect of Stalin’s purges on Otakhonova’s own family. Her father, Otahon Musohojaev, joined the Komsomol in 1919 and became a Party member in 1923; he was arrested in 1937. Hursheda and her mother sought shelter in Istarafshan; her father was released in 1944 but was not rehabilitated until 1957. Later chapters cover the author’s experience with prominent intellectuals and literary figures, including Abduqodir Manyezov and Mirzo Tursonzade.
Date: 2011 Source: Otakhonova, Khursheda. Dil mehohad, ki guiamu giram. Dushanbe: Irfon, 2011
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Тақдир (хотира ва
ёддоштҳо)
Fate (memoirs)

From the publisher: «Такдир» хотира ва ёддоштҳои ходими маъруфи ҳизбиву ҷамиятӣ Камоли Суфиён буда, аз талху шириниҳои рӯзгор ва лаҳзаҳои хотирмону нотакрор ҳикоят мекунад. Роҳи паймуда ва қисмати қаҳрамони марказй ибратбахшу пандомӯз аст, махсусан, барои ҷавонон. Kamol Sufiyon (Sufiev) 1931–? was a Communist Party official who rose to be Minister of Horticulture of the Tajik SSR and continued his political career after the Soviet collapse. This memoir covers his childhood near Nurek in the 1930s, his time in the Komsomol, the war years, the building of the Danghara canal in the post-war years, military service in Ashkhabad (Turkmenistan) and his Party career in a number of districts, including Ordzhonikidzeabad (Vahdat).
Date: 2011 Source: Sufiyon, Kamoli. Taqdir (khotira va yoddoshtho). Dushanbe: Adib, 2011.
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Турсунзода дар ёдҳо Recollections about Tursunzoda

From the publisher: Мунодии сулҳу вассофи Ватан, шоири тавонову мураббии аҳли сухан ва яке аз муборизони фаьоли дӯстии халқхои олам Мирзо Турсунзода бо хислатхои наҷибонаю ашъори рангини хеш дар дили хамватанону хамкаламон абадан маскан гирифтааст. «Турсунзода дар ёдхо» дастагулест аз хотироти адибони бузурги олам ва дӯсзону аҳли қалам, ки ба муносибати 100-солагии ин сухансолори бузург пешкашатон мегардад.
Mirzo Tursunzoda (1911-1977) was a Tajik poet and writer, still recognized as one of the most important figures in 20th century Tajik literature. Many of his poems focused on anti-colonial themes. Tursunzoda held a number of important government posts, including chairman of the Soviet Committee for Solidarity with the Countries of Asia and Africa (SKSSAA), member of the Committee for Peace, chairman of the Union of Writers of the Tajik SSR, and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Tajik SSR. This volume collects recollections from dozens of writers and colleagues, including Loiq Sherali, Aleksandr Dzasohov, Iosif Braginskiy, Gulnazar, and Rasul Gamzatov.
Date: 2011 Source: Safar, Gulanazar and Gurez Safar (eds). Tursunzoda dar yodho. Dushanbe: Adib, 2011.
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Дурахши ситора (очерк ва мақолаҳо). Shining stars: sketches and articles

From the publisher: Маҷмӯаро мавзӯъҳое фаро мегирад, ки дар онҳо касбу пешаҳои мухталиф дар мисоли рӯзгору фаъолияти соҳибистеъдодҳо, номварону номбардорони сарзамини аҷдодӣ ба қалам омада, аз як тараф, мутолеонро аз бисёр ҷиҳат ба гузаштаҳои пурифтихорамон мешиносонанд ва аз ҷониби дигар, дастури боэътимоде ҳастанд пайи ҳадафқои шойиста хддоях кардани хонандаи имрӯз. A collection of the journalist Ali Bobojon's sketches and articles about Tajik artists and writers.
Date: 2012 Source: Bobojon, Ali. Durahshi sitora (ocherk va maqolaho). Dushanbe: Adib, 2012.
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Солҳо ва одамони наҷиб. (аз дафтари хотира). Interesting times and interesting people

Muhiddin Zoirov (1931-2018) was a Tajikistani Party and government official. Originally from the village of Laqqon in Badakhshan, he studied agriculture in Dushanbe before embarking on a Party career that saw him rise to the post of Minister of Agriculture of the Tajik SSR and First Secretary of Gorno-Badakshan party organization. This volume collects his thoughts on various state and Party figures he encountered in his career, including Jabbor Rasulov, Abdulahad Kakhorov, as well as many local officials, farm managers, and others. The volume includes over 40 pages of photographs from the author's collection.
Date: 2012 Source: Zoirov, Mukhiddin. Solho va odamoni najib (az daftari khotira). Dushanbe: Shujoyon, 2012.
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Ёддоштҳо, феҳристи осор, ва андешаҳо Memories, Events, and Signs of the Times

Shukur Sultanov (1932-) is a historian, and former deputy director of the Institute of Party History of the Communist Party of Tajikistan. In the late 1980s, he was also Minister of Higher Education of the Tajik SSR. This mixed Tajik/Russian language memoir includes his own recollections and those about him.
Date: 2012 Source: Sultanov, Shukur. Yoddoshtho, fehristi osor, va andeshaho. Khujand: Khuroson, 2012.
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Ҳамтабаки Шодмон Юсупов ва Хулькар Юсупов ПӮКИД.
The Union of Shodmon Yusuf and Khulkar Yusupov has come Undone

From the publisher: Ҳеҷ гоҳ бо чунин дилгарми дар навиштани посухе capгарм нашуда будам, чуноне ки дар як моҳи пас аз Наврӯзи соли 2011. Зеро ҳамин даҳ-понздаҳ соли ахир чандин китоб ва садҳо мақола дар мукобили андеша ва шахсияти Мирбобои Мирраҳим (Мирраҳимов) ба нашр расида, ки аксари онҳо қобили накд ва посух нестанд, аммо дурӯғпароканӣ ва тӯҳматномаи С. Мирзорахматов аз ҷинси дигар аст. Дар мавриди навиштаҳои С. Мирзорахматов метавон танҳо бо ибораи хеле зебои Ибни Ҳуққал (Ҳавқал) ифодаи матлаб кард, ки барҳақ дар сурату сирати ин қабил бузургворон мефармояд: «ишон пойбанд ба фазоили ахлоқӣ нестанд ва дар касби разоил бисёр ҳарисанд». Ба ҳар ҳол дурӯғпароканиҳои ҷаноби С. Мирзорахматов, боне шуд, ки дар посухҳо бо бурҳони қотеъ парда аз чеҳраи ҳақиқии он кас бардошта, шахсияти яке аз коргардонони асосии фоҷиаҳои хунини моҳи феврали соли 1990 барои касби мақоми аввал дар Тоҷикистонро дақиқ нишон дода, бисёр дигар иттилоот ва далелҳо дар боби таърихи худшиносии миллии тоҷикон ва умуман таърихи навин мисол оварда шавад, ки то ба ҳол аксарият аз онҳо огоҳ набуданд ва ё бархе аз таре ва барқасд аз онҳо иҷтиноб меварзиданд...
Mirboboi Mirrahim (Mirbobo MIrrahimov) is a translator and expert in pre-Islamic religions. During perestroika, he became famous for his writings on the Tajik language and was one of the first writers to publicly discuss the status of Samarqand and Bukhara. He also became one of the cofounders of Rastokhez, Tajikistan's first independent political organization.et and writer; during perestroika he was one of the founders of Rastokhez, Tajikistan's first independent political organization. He later was involved in the brief opposition-led government that controlled Dushanbe between May and November 1992. This work comprises a combination of memoir-like sketches of the late 1980s and early 1990s, as well as polemics directed at those rival politicians and authors that Mirrahim believes to have misrepresented fact in their own published works.
Date: 2012 Source: Mirrahim, Mirboboi. Hamtabaqi Shodmon Iusuf va Khulkar Iusupov Pukid. Dushanbe: Bukhoro, 2012.
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Рустем Юсуфебков как учитель, наставник, устод. Rustem Iusufbekov: teacher, mentor, professor.

From the publisher: Книга посвящена известному таджикскому ученому, политэконому, специалисту по экономическим проблемам образования, государственному деятелю, члену-корреспонденту АН Республики Таджикистан, заслуженному деятелю науки, доктору экономических наук, профессору Рустамбеку Юсуфбекову. Книга включает статьи о научной и творческой деятельности Рустамбека Юсуфбекова с основными датами жизни и деятельности, список опубликованных работ, работ, редактированных ученым, а также литературу о нем. This volume is a collection of reminiscences about the educator and government official Rustem Iusufbekov (1923-2007). Originally from Ishakshim, Iusufebkov began his career as a schoolteacher before joining the communist party and later completing graduate work in economics, eventually becoming the head of the Political Economy department at the State University in Dushanbe. He then had a number of senior party and state positions, including Minister of Education of the Tajik SSR (1963-1974) and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Tajik SSR (1974-1984).
Date: 2013 Source: Iusufbekov, Iu. R. Rustem Iusufbekov kak uchitel', nastavnik, ustod. Dushanbe: 2013).
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حکایتها آکنده از حیات Stories full of life

Muhammadjon Shakuri (Shakurov) (1924-2012) was a Tajik philologist and academician. He studied at the pedagogical institute in Dushanbe and later earned his kandidatskaia and doktorskaia degrees at the Institute of World Literature in Moscow. His professional home, however, remained the Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature in Dushanbe. In the late 1980s he became a leading figure in the campaign for the primacy of the Tajik language. This volume, published in the Arabic/Persian script with the support of the Iranian Embassy in Dushanbe, includes accounts of raising Tajik-speaking children in a mixed family (his wife was Russian), his experience studying for a graduate degree, and his perestroika-era activism.
Date: 2014 Source: Shakuri, Muhammadjon. Hikoiathoi okhanda az hayot. Dushanbe: Royzanii farhangi Saforati Jumhurii Islomi Eron dar Tojikiston, 2014.
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Сарнавишт Fate

From the publisher: Қудратуллоҳи Искидарғи дар иигоштаҳояш бо номи «Сарнавишт» аз дидаву шунидаҳояш бозгӯ шудааст, ки паҳлӯуои норӯшани ҳаёти солиёни гузаштаи рӯзгорашро рушанӣ меандозанд. Qudratulloi Iskidarghi (Sharifi Jamil Qudrati), b. 1927, was a longtime employee of the Tajik SSR's Committee for Radio and Television, and worked closedly from 1960s-1980s with many television and movie directors. Originally from the small village of Dargh near Aini, his memoir comments on his work and origins.
Date: 2014 Source: Iskidarghi, Qudratulloi. Sarnavisht. Dushanbe: Kayhon, 2014.
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Демонтаж СССР The Demolition of the USSR

From the publisher: Эта книга о пережитом, о социальной драме, разыгравшейся 20 лет тому назад в Таджикистане, о природе так называемого таджикского ГКЧП, ставшего причиной неистовой антикоммунистической истерии демократов и исламских фундаменталистов, представляющих уникальный симбиоз новой объединённой оппозиции. Эта монография - размышления о трагической судьбе великой державы, неразрывной частью был Таджикистан, переставший существовать в силу двурушничества, предательства, измены, деструктивной деятельности части национальной интеллигенции. Shukur Sultanov (1932- ) is a historian, and former deputy director of the Institute of Party History of the Communist Party of Tajikistan. In the late 1980s, he was also Minister of Higher Education of the Tajik SSR. This work is a mix of memoir and historical discourse, covering the 1980s and the collapse of the USSR.
Date: 2014 Source: Sultanov, Shukur. Demontazh SSSR. Khujand: Khuroson, 2014.
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Маткаби ман My School

From the publisher: Дар китоб мақола, очерк ва дигар эҷодҳои солҳои гуногуни муаллиф ҷамьоварӣ шудаанд. Асарҳои саргузашт ва мутоибоз бори аввал чоп мешаванд. Munzifa Gafforova (1924-2013) was a philosopher and educator who served as rector of the Pedagogical Institute in Dushanbe from 1977-1988. Gafforova studied chemistry at the Kirov Pedagogical Institute in Leninabad, and by 18 was already working as an instructor there. She became a Komsomol activist, and by 1947, at the age of 23, was named head of women’s section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan. Later she completed two graduate degrees, becoming a Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy. This volume includes her recollections of study, graduate work in Moscow, her reflections on gender (in)equality in the Soviet period and after, and her experience as rector.
Date: 2014 Source: Gafforova, M. K. Maktabi man (Dushanbe: Irfon, 2014).
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Кровавый февраль
Bloody February

From the publisher: В этой книге речь пойдет о причинах и последствиях кровавых событий февраля 1990 года в Душанбе, о трех пленумах ЦК Компартии Таджикистана, которые прошли один за другим и не ответили на вопросы народа, и о том, как тяжело расставался с властью триумвират таджикских руководителей и как подстрелили они на взлете одного молодого и перспективного члена правительства. Автор попытался максимально достоверно исследовать причины, приведшие к чудовищной народной трагедии, и понять, почему все-таки случилось так, что ее кровавые плоды не стали уроком для будущего. Книга приурочена к 25-летию трагических событий и посвящена невинно погибшим в этой необъявленной войне с собственным населением. Buri Karimov (1958-) was a government minister in the Tajik SSR in the mid to late 1980s, reaching the post of Chairman of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan Tajik SSR) by 1989. Famous for becoming the youngest minister in the USSR at age 28 in 1987, Buri Karimov was an ambitious and charismatic late Soviet Tajik politician. He reached the post of republican Gosplan chairman in 1989, but fell out of favor and lost his Party and government positions in 1990 as a result of the February 1990 riots in Dushanbe. He became famous for his involvement in the "February riots," which almost toppled the leadership of the republic. This memoir is exclusively focused on those events and provides extensive detail on Karimov's side of the story.
Date: 2015 Source: Karimov, Buri. Krovavyi Fevral'. Moscow: Intransdornauka, 2015.
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Самый молодой министр Советского союза и председатель Госплана в СССР The youngest minister and Gosplan chairman in the USSR

From the publisher: В этом томе серии «Хокирох» дано описание не только жизни и трудовой деятельности героя книги — самого молодого министра в Советском Союзе и Председателя Госплана в СССР, но и деятельности Министерства строительства и эксплуатации автомобильных дорог, а также Госплана Таджикистана. Серьезное внимание уделено вопросам развития инфраструктуры, в том числе дорог, а самое главное — экономики и перспектив развития Таджикистана. Специалисты и профессионалы с интересом прочтут о том, что планировал и собирался создать молодой руководитель, а также смогут сравнить основные народно-хозяйственные показатели 90-годов прошлого века и темпы развития сегодняшней экономики Республики Таджикистан. Книга рассчитана на широкий круг читателей. Buri Karimov (1958-) was a government minister in the Tajik SSR in the mid to late 1980s, reaching the post of Chairman of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan Tajik SSR) by 1989. Famous for becoming the youngest minister in the USSR at age 28 in 1987, Buri Karimov was an ambitious and charismatic late Soviet Tajik politician. He reached the post of republican Gosplan chairman in 1989, but fell out of favor and lost his Party and government positions in 1990 as a result of the February 1990 riots in Dushanbe. This memoir is focused on his work as Minister of Automobile Roads and later as Gosplan chairman in the late 1980s.
Date: 2017 Source: Karimov, Buri. Samyi molodoi ministr Sovetskogo soiuza i predsedatel' gosplana v SSSR. Moscow: Instransdornauka, 2017.
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Достони зиндагӣ ( қ 2.) Stories of life (volume 2)

From the publisher: Китоби мазкур аз боба фаъолияти илмиву омӯзгории адабиётшинос профессор Х. Асозода солҳои 1974-1990 дар Донишгоҳи давлатии Тоҷикистон нақл намуда, доир ба ҳаёти илмиву фарҳангй ва адабии зшон маводи зиёди арзишмандеро дар бар мегирад. Китоб барои доираи васеи хонандагон, олимон, омӯзгорон, томбилмон ва ихлосмондани илму адаб пешниҳод мегардад. H. Asozoda (1941-2014) was a prominent literary historian and educator who served two tours as an interpreter in Afghanistan. This is the second volume of H. Asozoda's three volume memoir. It covers the perios 1974-1990, when he worked at the State University in Dushanbe. Note that his service in Afghanistan is covered in two separate volumes available here.
Date: Source: Asozoda, Khudoinazar. Dostoni zindagi [3 vols.] Dushanbe: Devashtich, 2006-2008. vol. 2
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Достони зиндагӣ (қ 3.) Stories of life (volume 3)

From the publisher: Дар ҷилди сеюм «Достони зиндагӣ» хотираҳои давраи донишгоҳи муаллиф бо сабки равону дилчасп қаламдод шудаанд. Дар ин китоб хонанда бо воқеаҳои сиёсивӯ фарҳангӣ ва иҷтимоии даҳ соли охири асри XX ва як қатор чеҳраҳои хотирмони ин солҳои пурошӯб ошно мегардад. H. Asozoda (1941-2014) was a prominent literary historian and educator who served two tours as an interpreter in Afghanistan. This is the third volume of H. Asozoda's three volume memoir. It covers the post-Soviet period and the civil war.
Date: Source: Asozoda, Khudoinazar. Dostoni zindagi [3 vols.] Dushanbe: Devashtich, 2006-2008. vol. 3
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