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The primary objective was to support the anti-Bolshevik forces in the region, particularly in Transcaspia (now Turkmenistan), and to secure the northern frontiers of British India from potential Bolshevik influence. The British feared that Soviet control of Central Asia could lead to instability in nearby Afghanistan and India. [14]
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 ...
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.
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 leaders of the Russian Civil War listed below include the important political and military figures of the Russian Civil War. [1] The conflict, fought largely from 7 November 1917 to 25 October 1922 (though with some conflicts in the Far East lasting until late 1923 and in Central Asia until 1934), was fought between numerous factions, the two largest being the Bolsheviks (The "Reds") and ...
Pierce, Richard A. Russian Central Asia, 1867–1917: a study in colonial rule (1960) online free to borrow; Quested, Rosemary. The expansion of Russia in East Asia, 1857–1860 (University of Malaya Press, 1968). Saray, Mehmet. "The Russian conquest of central Asia." Central Asian Survey 1.2-3 (1982): 1–30. Schuyler, Eugene.
The Bolsheviks made use of the slogan "Self-determination" to fight imperialism and to build support among non-Russian nationalities. [39] Lenin's position was that after the revolution all nationalities would be free to choose, either to become part of Soviet Russia or become independent. [40]
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 ...