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Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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cow in 1936. Between 1925 and 1927, he was the Acting Chair of the

Union of Joiners (in animal husbandry) of Uroteppa. From 1931 until

1938, he was Second Secretary of the Dushanbe Party Committee, as

well as the acting Editor of Tojikistoni Surkh. He was a Lecturer for the

Party Committee of Stalinabad from 1939 to 1941. Then, between 1941

and 1946, he was Secretary of the Party Committee of Gharm. From

1946 to 1949, he was a participant at the Advanced Party School of the

Central Committee of the Communist Party in Moscow. From 1949 to

1951, he was an instructor at the Central Committee of the Communist

Party. In 1951 and 1952, he was the First Acting Director of the Donish

Republican Association. In 1952, he became a teacher at the Depart-

ment of History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the

Tajikistan State University. He received his doctorate in history in 1976,

and became a professor in 1978.

Sodiqov's research deals with the historical experience of the Com-

munist Party regarding the socialist structural changes in Tajik society.

His main contribution is Tajribai Ta'rikhii KPSS Oid ba Sokhtmoni Sot-

siolism dar Tojikiston: 1917-1959 (The Historical Experience of the

Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Building Socialism in Tajiki-

stan: 1917-1959, Dushanbe, 1967).

Sodiqov received the Order of Lenin Prize, and the Honorary Order

of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan.