The Invasion of the Red Army against the Bukhara Emirate

Abstract

Due to its location in the middle of Asia, the land of Turkestan has a very important place in both economic and political aspects. In particular, the Great Silk Road connecting the West and the East (in the 4th and 18th centuries AD) also started from this region. The fact that there were big states such as Kang, Kushon kingdom, as well as medieval Turkic khanate, Karakhanid state, Khorezmshahs (Anushtegeni) state and Timurid state, which were huge states of the time in this Turanian land, is due to the rich history of this area and It shows that it is a geographically important region. As a result of the Bukhara and Khiva khanates established in Central Asia since the 18th century, and the establishment of the independent Kokhan Khanate separated from the Bukhara Khanate at the beginning of the 18th century, the lands of Turkestan, which owned several huge states, began to weaken. The main factor of weakening was the fact that one nation lived divided into three countries. after a long time of preparation, the Russian Empire began to conquer Turkestan and turned it into dependent states. As a result of the Bolsheviks coming to power in 1917, the complete conquest of Turkestan began.