Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic by the Tajik republican branch within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in all organs of government, politics and society. The Supreme Soviet was a unicameral legislature of the republic headed by a Chairman, with its superiority to both the executive and judicial branches and its members convened in the Supreme Soviet building in Dushanbe. Since independence in 1991, it retained the unicameral structure before being replaced by an bicameral system in 1999 using the presidential system. The republic's government structure was similar to those of other republics. Tajikistan was the only Central Asian Republic to not form an
Effects of economic liberalisation on education in Tajikistan Effects of economic liberalisation on education in Tajikistan Tajikistan gained independence in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and began its transition from socialist economics to a more liberal, market economy. Initially, efforts to effectively liberalise education to reflect the new economic order were hampered by the civil war that raged between 1991 and 1997, and the resulting economic collapse. Tajikistan has since received aid from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), adopting a number of educational reforms with mixed results. In the decade following independence, Tajikistan’s market institutions,