Basmachi movement
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The Basmachi movement was an uprising against Imperial Russian and Soviet rule in Central Asia. It has been called "probably the most important movement of opposition to Soviet rule in Central Asia".
Bukhara burning under siege by Red Army troops during the Bukhara operation, 1 September 1920
The Tashkent Soviet's building in 1917
Sayeed Alim Khan of Bukhara (1880–1944), the last Uzbek monarch
Turkestan front, 1922
Enver Pasha
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İsmâil Enver Pasha was a Turkish military officer, revolutionary, and convicted war criminal who served as the Ottoman Empire's Minister of War from 1914 to 1918. Along with Talaat and Djemal, he was
Basmachi movement
…goal was to defend the customary local way of life, which was perceived as being threatened by the Russians. The group's main leader was Ibrahim Bek. Enver Pasha, former Ottoman war minister and one of the key architects of the Armenian genocide, joined the movement after November 1921, seeking to create a…
Enver Bey in 1911
Enver (left) with his father, Ahmed Bey (center), and half-brother Nuri Pasha (later Nuri Killigil; right)
Enver Pasha (then Enver Bey) depicted on a Young Turks flyer with the slogan Long live the fatherland, long live the nation, long live liberty written in Ottoman Turkish and French
Postcard of Mehmed V flanked by Niyazi Bey (left) and Enver Bey (right)