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Turkestan ASSR
Origins
After the Tashkent Soviet took power in late 1917 and crushed the Kokand Autonomy, the Turkestan Soviet Republic was proclaimed in April 1918 within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, covering the former Turkestan Governorate-General. Cut off by civil war fronts until 1919, it was at first dominated by Russian settlers.
Rule and society
Moscow's Turkestan Commission, sent in 1919, curbed settler chauvinism and brought Muslim communists into government, including Turar Ryskulov. The republic fought the Basmachi revolts in Ferghana and famine, and introduced land reform. It governed from Tashkent, with the Bukharan and Khorezm republics as neighbours.
Decline and legacy
In the national delimitation of 1924 the republic was dissolved and its territory split among the Uzbek SSR, the Turkmen SSR, the Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast, the Tajik ASSR and the Kazakh ASSR. This drew the outlines of today's Central Asian states.
Lineage
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- Kokand Autonomy was conquered by Turkestan ASSR1918 CE
- Turkestan ASSR was part of Russian SFSR1918 CE – 1924 CE
- Transcaspian Government was conquered by Turkestan ASSR1919 CE
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Turkestan ASSR. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/turkestan-assr
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