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Tajik society was changed profoundly in some ways by decades of Soviet rule but in other ways went remarkably undisturbed. Dr. Muriel Atkin of the George Washington University will examine the tensions between tradition, enduring Soviet influences, and post-Soviet reform in Tajikistan, with special regard to national identity, politics, the economy, and Islam. Dr. Atkin holds a PhD. from Yale University, and her publications include Thwarted Democratization in Tajikistan, Tajikistan: Reform, Reaction, and Civil War, and The Ambiguous Position of Women in Tajikistan.