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Turar Risqulov: A Kazakh Revolutionary Leader

Not only was Turar Risqulov instrumental in salvaging Central Asia after a near decade of civil war, establishing an indigenous government within Soviet Turkestan, and managing the Sovietization of Central Asia, but he was also a key member of the Soviet Union beyond Turkestan and formidable intellectual. Join my patreon Turar Risqulov was born in Semireche to a poor, but highly respect Kazakh…

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Musburo: Creating a Muslim Nationalist-Communist Cadre in Turkestan, 1919

 1918 was a whirlwind for Turkestan. It started with the creation and then destruction of an independent government, the Kokand Autonomy, the rise of a violent guerilla movement in the Ferghana valley, a failed invasion of Bukhara, and the arrival of Pyotr Kobozev, a Bolshevik agent who wanted to end the war between the Russian settlers and the indigenous peoples. His solution was to break the…

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