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“Life in the Tajik SSR in 1985 was good – and was getting better,” Scarborough writes. Prior to perestroika the Tajik SSR was “a sleepy Soviet backwater” with a reputation in Moscow of ...

Two years later, he was promoted to chairman of the Tajik SSR’s State Planning Committee, or Gosplan, a position he occupied for 19 years. From 1965, he simultaneously acted as deputy chairman of ...

The archive’s holdings include bound notebooks, notecards, and loose-leaf papers documenting Soviet folklore collecting expeditions in the Tajik SSR and contiguous Persian-speaking regions from ...