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Yelena fully emigrated to the United States after the fall of the Soviet Union. She begins researching her family heritage and starts writing her book Soul to Soul in 1990. She was given a Rockefeller grant in 1991 to help further her research of her family. Currently she splits her time between living in NYC and Moscow.

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Yelena Khanga participated in an exchange program in Boston. She writes for the Christian Science Monitor in 1987.

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Abdullah Khanga (Yelena Khanga father) was Prime Minister of Zanzibar from January 1962 to April 1964. Was killed in Zanzibar in 1967

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Oliver Golden and Bertha Bialek have Lily Golden in 1934.

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Oliver Golden develops a hybrid cotton that grows in this region

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Bertha Bialek (Yelena Khanga grandmother) born to a Jewish family

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Oliver Golden along with his wife (Bertha Bialek) and 14 other agricultural specialist arrive in Tashkent to assist in the cultivation of cotton process.

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Golden, returned to America and joined the American Communist Party in New York City.

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Communist University for Oriental Workers in Moscow 

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Communist University for Oriental Workers in Moscow 

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Oliver Golden got his degree from the Communist University for Oriental Workers in Moscow in 1928.

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Lily Golden and Adbullah Kassim Khanga met in Moscow. They got married in 1960, and their daughter Yelena Khanga was born on May 1, 1962. Yelena grew up in Moscow and attended Moscow State University.

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1924 Oliver Golden arrived in Soviet Russia by invitation from the Comintern, with his first wife, Jane Wilson. Jane died from an illness in 1924 in Soviet Russia.

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Bertha was raised in New York City where she worked at a sweat shop.

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Oliver Golden worked as a waiter and joined the U.S. Communist Party during the early 1920's

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Oliver Golden worked as a Chef during WW1

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Oliver Golden (grandfather to Yelena Khanga) was born in 1887