About the book: 1984 / The novel by the people's writer of Uzbekistan Nazir Safarov was based on true historical events of which he was an eyewitness: the Jizzakh uprising of 1916, the February and October revolutions, civil war, the formation of Soviet power in Turkestan. The first book of the novel was awarded the State Prize of the Uzbek SSR named after. Hamza.