Rozwój prasy tadżyckiej – geneza, przemiany i cele

The focus of this article is to describe how the press of Tajikistan was established and developed until the modern era. During the authors’ fieldwork in the Republic of Tajikistan, the evolution of the role of the Tajik written media in the historical context was researched, with a special focus on the development of the press at the beginning of the 1990s. During this period, called the “golden era” of Tajik journalism, a great variety of independent, politically and culturally involved titles were published, but this soon came to an end after the outbreak of the civil war.