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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Russian History</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Russian History</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: История России</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-8674</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-8690</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">22988</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-8674-2020-19-1-119-135</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>THE LIFE OF THE NATIONS OF THE USSR BETWEEN 1920-1950</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ЖИЗНЬ НАЦИЙ СССР В 1920−1950Е ГГ.</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Soviet-Tajik Writing Intelligentsia in the Late 1930s</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>C оветская таджикская писательская элита в конце 1930-х годов</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Seay</surname><given-names>Nicholas</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Сии</surname><given-names>Николас</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD Student of the History Department</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>аспирант кафедры истории</p></bio><email>seay.27@buckeyemail.osu.edu</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Ohio State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Университет штата Огайо</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2020-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>19</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">THE LIFE OF THE NATIONS OF THE USSR BETWEEN 1920-1950</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Жизнь наций СССР в 1920−1950-е гг.</issue-title><fpage>119</fpage><lpage>135</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2020-02-26"><day>26</day><month>02</month><year>2020</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2020, Seay N.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2020, Сии Н.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2020</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Seay N.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Сии Н.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/russian-history/article/view/22988">https://journals.rudn.ru/russian-history/article/view/22988</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>This paper looks at the formation of a Tajik-Soviet writing elite in the 1930s, exploring how a new generation of Soviet writers in the late 1930s emerged out of new state institutions. Prior to their emergence, the founders of Tajik literature - Sadriddin Aini and Abolqosim Lahuti - used their unique position vis-à-vis Moscow to shape the direction of Tajik literature. Despite the former’s important place in Soviet hagiography, it was the younger generation of Tajik writers - including writers like Mirzo Tursunzoda, Jalol Ikromi, Sotim Ulughzoda, and others - that emerged on the all-Union writing scene in the late 1930s and became key cultural and political fi gures in the post-war era. While the role of the Tajik writer inevitably became the portrayal of the national subject in the modern context of Soviet development, this article shows how comparing the themes and writings of these two generations in the 1930s demonstrates how Tajik national identity building related to the nationalities policies of the early Soviet Union and, in particular, the relationship between Tajik national identity and territory. This paper relies on a few primary source materials the Central State Archive of the Republic of Tajikistan, but also online archives, newspapers/periodicals, and published Books and collections. This paper fi nds that the mobilization of a younger generation of Tajik-Soviet Writing Intelligentsia led to the creation of a new vision of Tajik national identity unfolding in a Soviet space. Unlike the early writers Sadriddin Aini and Abolqosim Lahuti, these younger writers emerged in new Soviet institutions and therefore projected a new Soviet-Tajik identity in the late 1930s and eventually became leaders of Central Asian literature in the post WWII period</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Статья посвящена истории формирования новой таджикской советской литературной элиты в 1930-е гг. На примере реализации проекта «Политика советских национальностей» показан процесс становления новых национальных символов, языка, мифологии Таджикистана, представлены основные его участники в лице основателей таджикской литературы - Садриддина Айни и Аболкосима Лахути и молодых авторов - Мирзо Турсунзаде, Ялола Икроми, Сотима Улугзода и др., которые стали ключевыми фигурами в культурной и политической жизни республики в послевоенную эпоху. Показано, что роль таджикского писателя в те годы во многом определялась необходимостью создания и изображения национального субъекта в контексте советского развития. Проведенный автором анализ тематики художественных произведений двух поколений литераторов 1930-х гг. продемонстрировал то, как построение национальной идентичности таджиков, определение их территориальной локализации были связаны с национальной политикой Советского Союза той эпохи. Данная статья опирается на разные группы источников, включая документы Центрального государственного архива Республики Таджикистан и онлайн-архивов, публицистические материалы и художественные произведения. Автор приходит к выводу, что мобилизация молодого поколения представителей таджикской советской литературной интеллигенции привела к формированию нового типа таджикской национальной идентичности на советском пространстве. В отличие от Садриддина Айни и Аболкосима Лахути, молодые таджикские литераторы сумели вписаться в условия советской действительности. Именно они формировали с конца 1930-х гг. новую таджикскую идентичность, став в итоге лидерами художественной литературы Центральной Азии в послевоенный период советской истории.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>national identity</kwd><kwd>national politics</kwd><kwd>Tajik writers</kwd><kwd>Tajik-Persian literature</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Ключевы е слова: национальная идентичность</kwd><kwd>национальная политика</kwd><kwd>таджикские писатели</kwd><kwd>таджикско-персидская литература</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Abudullaev, K. Historical Dictionary of Tajikistan. Lanham: Rowman &amp; Littlefi eld, 2018.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Becka, J. Sadriddin Ayni: Father of Modern Tajik Culture. 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