2 Lenin, V. I. Complete Collected Works, vol. 3, p. 436.2
3 Andriev, M. C. "Ob etnografii Tadzhikov," Tadzhikistan (About Tajik Ethnography," Tajikistan, Collection of Essays with maps), Tashkent, 1925, p. 151.3
4 Lenin, V. I. Complete Collected Works, vol. 31, pp. 158-59.4
5 Central'ni gosudarstvenni arkhiv (hence, CGA) IML., F. 17. Op. 2., D. 213, L. 64.66.5
6 Lenin, V. I. Complete Collected Works, vol. 41, p. 435.6
7 CPA IML., F. 62. Op. 2., D. 101, L.2,3.7
8 Surkhan Dariya is an administrative unit in the south of present-day Uzbekistan centered on the town of Tirmidh and the Surkhan River. Surkhan Dariya is rich in oil, gas, coal as well as in cotton and metallurgy; it is also a major food processing center. In addition, Surkhan Dariya is known for its orchards, vineyards, silk worm farms, and animal husbandry (ed.).8
9 Qashqa Dariya is an administrative unit in the south of present-day Uzbekistan centered on the town of Qarshi and the Qashqa River. Qashqa Dariya is rich in both cultivation of cotton and production of oil and natural gas. It also has food processing factories, cotton ginning, buildings materials, and carpet weaving. In addition, Qashqa Dariya is rich in grains (wheat and barley), orchards, and the cultivation of the silk worm (ed.).9
10 CPA IML.> F. 62. Op. 2., D. 151, L. 6.10
11 See Ocherki istorii Kamunisticheskoi partii Tadzhikistana (Essay on the History of the Communist Party of Tajikistan), vol. 1, Dushanbe, 1980, p. 102.11
12 Usman Khan Ishankhajaev was a teacher and reporter. He joined the Communist Party in 1919. Between 1922 and 1924, he was the People's Commissar of Education of Turkistan. The following year, he served "Red Uzbekistan" as a reporter and was appointed the chief of propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan. His subsequent positions include Secretary of the Regional Committee for Surkhan Dariya, organizational director of the Communist Party of the Northern Novgorod region, and the Party Secretary for Krasnaufmisk regions (ed.).12
13 CPA IML., F. 62. Op. 1, D. 25, L. 80.13
15 CPA IML., F. 62. Op. 1, D. 25, L. 30.15
16 Chinar Imamov began his career in 1918 as the Director of the Urateppe Communist Party. Between 1920 and 1923 he was the head of the Party organization of Jizzakh, Samarqand, and Katta Kurgan. At the end of 1923, he became the Associate Director of the Central Committee of Control and Supervision of Workers and Farmers of the Autonomous Republic of Tajikistan. By 1924, he was the First Secretary of the Temporary Autonomous Republic of Tajikistan and member of the Central Asian Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Russia. From December 1924, he was the Director of the Communist Party Organization of Tajikistan and Tajikistan's representative in Uzbekistan. Between 1931 and 1937, the year he was purged, he served in several ministerial positions in Tajikistan, including Minister of Health and Prime Minister (ed.).16
17 Mahmud Khaja Behbudi (1874-1919), a writer, was one of the ideologues of the Jadid movement in Turkistan. He published the Samarqand and Aina journals in Samarqand and wrote a series of textbooks. He supported the new schools and was one of the organizers of the national bourgeois autonomous Kokand. Behbudi was killed in Qarshi at the hands of the Amir's executioners (ed.).17
18 Mustafa Chokaev (1890-1941) was the President of the Provisional government of Autonomous Turkistan which itself was elected by the Extraordinary Congress of the Muslims of Turkistan in 1917. In the late 1920's, he moved to Berlin where, as an avowed enemy of the Soviets, was given permission to publish his Yash Turkistan. Both he and Zeki Velidi Togan were against the inclusion of Turkistan in any future Russian federation (ed.).18
19 CGA Tad'ikskoj SSR, F. 3, Op. 3, D. 271, L. 4-5.19
20 CGA Tad'ikskoj SSR, F. 3, Op. 3, D. 271, L. 4, 5.20
22 CPA IML., F. 62. Op. 2., D. 88, L. 92.22
23 CGA Uzbekskoj SSR. F. R., 47, Op. 1, D. 186, L. 143.23
24 CGA IML., F. 62. Op. 2.> D. 151, L.60-61.24
25 Vareikis I. and I. Zelenskii. Natsional'no-gosudarstvennoe Razmiazhvanie Srednej Azii (The National Divisions in Central Asia), Tashkent, 1924, p. 79.25
26 Abdurrahim Hajibaev began his career in 1918 as a teacher in Transcaspia. During 1919 and 1920, he was the director of the land distribution division of Khujand. From there he moved to Ferghana. In 1934, he became the director of the Peoples Soviet of Tajikistan. He was purged in 1938 (ed.).26
27 Uezd is the Russian for district. It is an administrative-judicial territorial unit, including a town and its rural environs.27
28 Volost is a rural administrative unit.28
29 Rustam Islamov served the Party in various positions including the Minister of Food of the Autonomous Republic of Turkistan, Director of the Peoples Commissariat of Turkistan, First Secretary and Party organizer of Uzbekistan, and the Minister of Agriculture of Uzbekistan. Between 1929 and 1934, he served in the Central Asian Bureau of Central Committee of the Communist Party. He was purged in 1938 (ed.).29
30 Pulad Khojaev Osman Khaja was born in 1890. He is one of the Young Bukharans who studied in Turkey. In 1918, after the Kalisev event, Khojaev formed the Left Young Bukharan Organization in Tashkent and in September of the same year joined the Communist Party. On the eve of the Bukhara revolution, he was one of the leaders of the Central Bureau of the Turkistani Party of the Revolutionary Young Bukharans. After the Revolution, he was supervisor of the treasury and government controller. In August 1921, he became the chief of the KIM Soviet Republics. In December of the same year, when he traveled to Dushanbe to join the Bashmachis, led by Enver Pasha, he fled to Afghanistan and joined the anti-Revolutionary forces of the Amir (ed.).30
31 Oblastnoi gasudarstvennyi arkhiv GBAO (The Governmental-County Archives of the Autonomous Gorno-Badakhshan). F. 1, Op. 1, D. 28, L. 64-64a, 66-67.31
32 Oblastnoi gasudarstvennyi arkhiv GBAO. F. 1, Op. 1, D. 28, L. 68.32
34 CPA IML. F. 62, OP. 2. D. 104, L. 237-38.34
35 PA Uz FIML. F. 58, Ol. 5, D. 284, L. 46.35
37 Oblastnoi gasudarstvennyi arkhiv GBAO. F. 1, Op 1, D. 28, L. 71-74.37
39 Kurultai is the coming together of a people, for instance, the getting together of the Kyrgyz to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Manas; meetings in which political problems, such as election of a new leader, are settled (ed.).39
40 A rural administrative unit (ed.).40
41 Oblastnoi gasudarstvennyi arkhiv GBAO. F. 1, Op 1, D. 28, L. 70.41
43 CPA IML: F. 17 - Op. 3. D. 270, L 30-31.43
44 Vareikis I. and I. Zelenskii, op. cit., p. 12.44
45 CPA IML, F. 17 - Op. 68, D. 168, L. 12, 12 ob.45
46 CPA IML, F. 62 - Op. 2, D. 177, L. 41.46
47 Barsigov U. G. Pravo na samopedelenne-osnova demokraticheskogo reshenia mezhnatsional'nyx problem (Self-identification Rights-Democratic Bases for the Resolution of International Problems), Yerevan, 1989, p. 64.47