Tajikistan: A Political and Social History - Paperbackby Kirill Nourzhanov (Author), Christian Bleuer (Author) This book is a historical study of the Tajiks in Central Asia from the ancient times to the post Soviet period. For millennia, these descendants of the original Aryan settlers were part of many different empires set up by Greek, Arab, Turkic and Russian invaders, as well as their own, most notably during the Middle Ages. The emergence of the modern state of Tajikistan began after 1917 under