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The British feared that Soviet control of Central Asia could lead to instability in nearby Afghanistan and India. [14] Malleson coordinated with local anti-Bolshevik factions, including the Transcaspian Government, a provisional authority established by Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries in the region. His forces provided logistical and ...
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The Central Asian Revolt of 1916 : A Collapsing Empire in the Age of War and Revolution. 2020. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Noack, Christian: Muslimischer Nationalismus im Russischen Reich. Nationsbildung und Nationalbewegung bei Tataren und Baschkiren 1861–1917, Stuttgart 2000. Pierce, Richard A.: Russian Central Asia 1867–1917.
In Central Asia, Red Army troops continued to face resistance into 1923, where basmachi (armed bands of Islamic guerrillas) had formed to fight the Bolshevik takeover. The Soviets engaged non-Russian peoples in Central Asia, like Magaza Masanchi, commander of the Dungan Cavalry Regiment, to fight against the Basmachis. The Communist Party did ...
After the 1917 October Revolution, Russian Central Asia was in turmoil.Some cities, like Tashkent, Petro-Alexandrovsk and Charjou were controlled by Bolsheviks, while in other regions, all Russian troops had disappeared and the local rulers had taken back control.
The term "Basmachi" is of Uzbek origin and means "bandit" or "robber" [14] [15] which probably derived from "baskinji" meaning "attacker". [16] The Russians used the term for the Central Asian resistance fighters, and it was widely used throughout the region to denote them, in an attempt to persuade the public that the fighters were no more than criminals.
The relations with Britain were in disquietude from the Great Game in Central Asia until the 1907 Anglo-Russian Convention, when both agreed to settle their differences and joined to oppose the new rising power of Germany. [93] Russia and France's relations remained isolated before the 1890s when both sides agreed to ally when peace was ...
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [224] Lageard, H. A. (1987). The Revolt of the Basmachi According to Red Army Journals (1920–1922). Central Asian Survey, 6(3), 1–35. Marwat, F. R. K. (1985). The Basmachi Movement in Soviet Central Asia: A Study in Political ...