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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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Komilov, Mirzo

Tajik philosopher Mirzo Komilov was born into a farming family of

Konibodom in northern Tajikistan on January 16, 1928. He joined the

CPSU in 1957.

Komilov graduated from the Dushanbe Pedagogical Institute in

1957. Thereafter, he taught in the middle school and, from 1959 to

1962, he became a post-graduate student in the Department of Philoso-

phy of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. In 1962 and 1963, he be-

came the Director of the Institute of the History of Dialectical Materi-

alism of the Academy. In 1970, he became the Head of the Department

of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy and Scientific Communism of the In-

stitute of Agriculture. He received his doctorate in philosophy in 1971.

Komilov's studies deal with the problems of historical materialism

and scientific Communism. Komilov's contributions include Shakhs va

Jam'iyyat (Individual and Community, 1969, Izmenenie sotsial'noi sredi

i formirovanie novoi lichnosti (Social Transformation and Personality

Formation, 1971), Formirovanie sotsialickeskogo soznonia lichnosti

(Socialist Formation of Personal Instinct, Moscow, 1974). Formi-

rovanie Novoi lichnosti: filosofskiie i sotsialocheskie aspekti (Forma-

tion of New Personality: Philosophical and Social Aspects, Moscow,

1975).