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Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible Eurasian boundaries for the subregion. Soviet Central Asia (Russian: Советская Средняя Азия, romanized: Sovetskaya Srednyaya Aziya) was the part of Central Asia administered by the Russian SFSR and then the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1991, when the Central Asian republics declared independence.
Central Asia's borders are often viewed by critics of the USSR as being an attempt to divide and rule; a way to maintain Soviet hegemony over the region by artificially dividing its inhabitants into separate nations and with borders deliberately drawn so as to leave minorities within each state. [13]
By the 1921, the Soviet Union had achieved dominance over Central Asia. The Red Army systematically dismantled the Basmachi Movement and established control over key territories in Turkestan, Bukhara, and Khiva. The Soviet strategy combined military force with diplomatic efforts to co-opt local leaders and undermine resistance.
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) [a] is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia.It was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It covers an area of 20,368,759 km 2 (7,864,422 sq mi) and has an estimated population of 246,200,194.
The borders of Central Asia are subject to multiple definitions. Historically, political geography and culture have been two significant parameters widely used in scholarly definitions of Central Asia. Humboldt's definition comprised every country between 5° North and 5° South of the latitude 44.5°N.
Central Asia's proximity to these states makes the region a hub for the drug trade throughout the world. [12] During the Soviet era, Central Asia's border to Afghanistan was mostly blocked off with little cross-border trade or travel. When Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the border began to open up.
Three decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, an emerging generation of filmmakers born and raised in the independent countries of Central Asia is giving an exhilarating charge to the region ...
In 1958, the Soviet Geographical Society formally recommended that the boundary between Asia and Europe be drawn in textbooks from Baydaratskaya Bay, on the Kara Sea, along the eastern foot of the Ural Mountains, then following the Ural River until the Mugodzhar Hills, and then the Emba River; and Kuma–Manych Depression, [82] thus placing the ...