The Basmachi movement was an uprising against Imperial Russian and Soviet rule in Central Asia by rebel groups inspired by Islamic beliefs.
Bukhara under siege by Red Army troops and burning during the Bukhara operation, 1 September 1920
The Tashkent Soviet's building in 1917
Emir Sayeed Alim Khan of Bukhara (1880–1944), the last Emir of Bukhara.
Negotiations with Basmachi, Fergana, 1921
Central Asian revolt of 1916
The Central Asian revolt of 1916, also known as the Semirechye Revolt and as Urkun in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, was an anti-Russian uprising by the indigenous inhabitants of Russian Turkestan sparked by the conscription of Muslims into the Russian military for service on the Eastern Front during World War I. The rampant corruption of the Russian colonial regime and Tsarist colonialism in all its economic, political, religious, and national dimensions are all seen as the contributing causes.
Amankeldı İmanov (on postmark) was the leader of Kazakh revolt on Turgay front
The Tian Shan range seen from the West in 1915
Czarist Russian officials at Pamirski Post near the Chinese border in 1915