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| Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic | |||||||||
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| ASSR of theUzbek Soviet Socialist Republic | |||||||||
| 1924–1929 | |||||||||
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 Location of the Tajik ASSR within theUzbek SSR | |||||||||
| Capital | Dushanbe | ||||||||
| • Type | Soviet republic | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 14 October 1924 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | October 1929 | ||||||||
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TheTajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic[c] (Tajik ASSR) was an autonomous republic within theUzbek SSR in theSoviet Union. It was created on 14 October 1924 by a series of legal acts that partitioned the three existing regional entities in Central Asia –Turkestan ASSR,Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, andKhorezm People's Soviet Republic – into five new entities based on ethnic principles: Uzbek SSR,Turkmen SSR, Tajik ASSR (within Uzbek SSR),Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast (as a province ofRussian SFSR), andKarakalpak Autonomous Oblast (as a province ofKazak ASSR).
The capital of Tajik ASSR was in Dyushambe. In October 1929, under the initiative ofShirinsho Shotemur, the Tajik ASSR was transformed into a full-fledged Soviet Socialist Republic and becameTajik SSR, which additionally absorbed theKhujand region (today'sSughd Province in northernTajikistan) from Uzbek SSR. The capital Dyushambe was renamed Stalinabad in honor ofJoseph Stalin.
Like in other Soviet Socialist Republics, the processes ofindustrialization andcollectivization started in 1927 and continued until the end of the 1930s. Terror was often used to coerce farmers into forced collectivization, and this led to anti-government resistance in the years spanning from 1930 to 1936.Stalinist purges hit many members of theCommunist Party of Tajikistan, and this led to the elimination of around 10,000 people (70% of the Party members). The people of Tajikistan suffered also from forced relocation: in the 1950s-1960s, inhabitants of the mountain regions of the country were deported to urban centers were workforce was needed, while in 1951–1952, 3,000 Basmachis were deported to Siberia.[1]
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