Abdullaev, Kamoludin Tajik historian Kamoludin Najmiddinzoda Abdullaev was born into the family of a government (Communist) official in the village of Shulmak, Gharm, on February 21,1950. He received his early education at home and in Russian schools while he grew up in Khorugh (Badakhshan) and Khujand, before he moved to Dushanbe in 1962. Abdullaev graduated from Tajikistan State University with a degree in history in 1972. In 1981, he defended his post-graduate thesis entitled Central Asian Periodicals as a Historical Source on the History of the Elimination of the Basmachi ([Muslim Guerillas]) Movement. In 1983, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. It was entitled The Soviet Turkistan Newspapers as a Historical Source on the History of the Elimination of Basmachism in Central Asia. In the late 1980s, changing with the times, Abdullaev altered his approach to historiography to deal with the new realities of Central Asia. Abdullaev has served in a number of positions since the late 1980s. He was Research Fellow at the Institute of History, the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan (1975-89). And he was Head of the Department of Political Research at the Institute of Political Research in Dushanbe (1989-91). Between 1991 and 1997, he was Assistant Professor of History of Central Asia (19th-20th centuries) at Tajikistan State Uni- versity. He was project Officer and Curriculum Development Specialist for the Agha Khan Humanities Project for Central Asia from 1997 to 1999. More recently, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Research under the President of Tajikistan (1999-01) and the Adviser on the Tajikistan Accord Project at Conciliation Resources of London (2000-01). Abdullaevs contributions include Po Puti Velikogo Oktiabria (On the Path of the Great October) edited with Nazarshoh Nazarshoev, 1988; Oruzhiem Pechatnogo Slova (With the Printed Word as a Weapon, 1989); Politics of Compromise: The Tajikistan Peace Proc- ess, edited with Catherine Barnes, 2001; Politika kompromissa. Mirny protsess v Tadzhikistane (Politics of Compromise: The Tajikistan Peace Process) edited with Catherine Barnes, 2001; and Exiles of Bolshevism, Central Asian Emigration in 1918-1932 (in press). Abdullaev has been a Fulbright Scholar (1994), Research Fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (1995), a British Academy Visiting Fellow (1996), and a Sumitomo Bank Fellow (2001- 02).
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