xii. IN TAJIKISTAN Before its incorporation into the Soviet
Union the territory of Tajikistan constituted the eastern part
of the Bukharan emirate, with an economy based on agriculture
and animal husbandry, as well as on such highly skilled local
manufacturing as silk weaving, pottery, and leatherwork. The
Russian imperial government had introduced cultivation of cotton
on a significant scale only in the densely populated Farḡāna
valley, in the northern part of Tajikistan. Rudimentary modern
industry was established mainly in Ḵojand, the only significant
urban center incorporated into Soviet Tajikistan (Asimov, pp.
190-92; Nurnazarov and Rahimov, pp. 46-50). During the seventy
years of centralized Soviet administration the economy of
Tajikistan was modernized and integrated into the Soviet
economy. As a participant in the general dynamics of Soviet
economic development, the Tajik Soviet Republic exhibited
comparatively remarkable growth in the agricultural and
industrial sectors during successive five-year pl