Features an overview of the aims and actions of the indigenous resistance movement.

Explores the Achaemenid Empire and Greco-Bactrian kingdoms, the Islamic conquest, and the Samanids.

Describes the career of the Tajikstani politician Ghafurov. Also describes the Tajik nationalist movement.

Details the massive crackdown on the communist party who resisted the implementation approach to collectivized agriculture.

Describes the creation of the autonomous Soviet socialist republic within Uzbekistan.