The History of a National Catastrophe by Rahim Masov Edited and Translated by Iraj Bashiri The University of Minnesota Department of Slavic and Central Asian Languages and Literatures &#169 Iraj Bashiri, 1996 The Condition of the Tajiks in the People's Soviet Republic of Bukhara The configuration of the Tajik nation and its governance, like those of some other peoples, required that they be ...