P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Ali Khush

See Khushmuhammadzoda, Ali.

Aliev, Abbos

Tajik statesman and scholar Abbos Aliev was born in Bukhara in

1899. He received his early education in both the traditional Islamic

mektabs and in the new-method schools of Bukhara. He received his

doctorate degree in history and became a professor in 1940. Aliev

joined the CPSU in 1917. Aliev graduated from the "Krasnaya Profes-

sora" of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. He then be-

came involved in revolutionary activities primarily in Bukhara, Kagan,

and Charju. Between 1918 and 1920, he was the head of the clandestine

Party Committee of Charju. Thereafter, he became a Party functionary

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