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 and served as the Chief Editor of the Turkish monthly, Bukhara, and other Bukhara-related publications. Between 1924 and 1927, he became the first Minister of Education of the Autonomous Republic of Tajikistan. In this capacity, he endeavored to eliminate all vestiges of illiteracy from Tajikistan. Alievs career in science and pedagogy began in 1933, when he taught at the State University of Central Asia. Then, between 1940 and 1945, he was the Head of the Department of History of the Ancient Orient and the Peoples of the Soviet Union at the Dushanbe State Pedagogical Institute, as well as the Dean of the Faculty of History. He was also one of the first translators of classical Marxist-Leninist literature. During the period between 1940 and 1958, he also taught Soviet Cultural History at Kyrgyzstan State University, Kazakhstan State University, and the University of Ukraine. His major work, Velikii Oktiabr i revoliutsionizirovanie narodov Bukhari (The Great October and the Revolutionary Path Chosen by the Peoples of Bukhara) was published in Tashkent in 1958. In 1922, Aliev was the recipient of the Order of Gold Star awarded by the Central Executive Committee of the Peoples Republic of Bukhara. Aliev died in Alma-Ata (now Almaty) on January 16, 1958.
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