Russian Turkestan
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Russian Turkestan was the vast region of Central Asia governed by the Russian Empire, often described by historians as a colonial possession. It was formally organized as the Turkestan Governorate-Gen
The Defence of the Samarkand Citadel in 1868
Konstantin von Kaufman, first and longest-serving Governor-General of Turkestan (1867–1882)
Le Turkestan et les pays limitrophes tracé des frontières de la Russie d'Asie
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".
Russian Turkestan
…attack on the Kokand Autonomy, leaving an estimated 14,000 local inhabitants dead. Resistance to the Bolsheviks by the local population (dismissed as "Basmachi" or "bandits" by Soviet historians) continued well into the early 1930s. The economy of the Turkestan Governor-Generalship was fundamentally transformed…
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