Discussion on the art of socialist emblems. Past, current, and fictional!
'Heraldry' and 'coat of arms' are not preferred terms - they are a relic of feudal and aristocratic social relations, something revolutionaries specifically wanted to distance when creating their emblems.
This is the emblem of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, an autonomous republic within the Uzbek SSR. This is not the emblem of the Tajik SSR.