Communist Party of Uzbekistan
The Communist Party of Uzbekistan, initially known as Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Uzbekistan, was the ruling communist party of the Uzbek SSR, and a part of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). On 14 September 1991, the party announced its withdrawal from the CPSU.
Image: Vladimir ivanov
Image: Гикало, Николай Фёдорович
Image: Inomjon Usmonxo'jayev Soviet Life, October 1984
Image: Islam Karimov (cropped)
Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic
The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Uzbekistan, the Uzbek SSR, UzSSR, or simply Uzbekistan and rarely Uzbekia, was a union republic of the Soviet Union. It was governed by the Uzbek branch of the Soviet Communist Party, the legal political party, from 1925 until 1990. From 1990 to 1991, it was a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with its own legislation.
Group of Uzbek women in the old city of Tashkent, 1924
The Uzbek SSR in 1927, including Tajik ASSR and Khodzhent
The Uzbek SSR in the Soviet Union, 1989 (Navoi Oblast not shown)