Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR Hardcover – December 21, 2015

Khalid is one of the preeminent scholars on Soviet Central Asia, and this book does not disappoint. He does a great job of showing how the Bolsheviks first gained power in Turkestan (as Uzbekistan was part of) and then consolidated their control in the region, leading to the delineation and establishment of Uzbekistan, and subsequently Tajikistan.