Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

The Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Russian: Туркестанская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика, romanized: Turkestanskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika; 30 April 1918 – 27 October 1924), originally called the Turkestan Socialist Federative Republic, was an autonomous republic of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic located in Soviet Central Asia. Uzbeks were the preeminent nation of Turkestan ASSR. Tashkent was the capital and largest city in the region.

Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Туркестанская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика
Autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR
1918–1924
Flag of Turkestan ASSR
Flag

Map of Soviet Central Asia in 1922, indicating the location and extent of the Turkestan ASSR (brown).
CapitalTashkent
History
Historical eraInterwar era
• Established
30 April 1918
• Disestablished
27 October 1924
Preceded by		Succeeded by
Turkestan Autonomy
Uzbek SSR
Turkmen SSR
Tajik ASSR
Kara-Kirghiz AO
Karakalpak AO

During the Russian Empire, the Turkestan ASSR's territory was governed as Turkestan Krai, the Emirate of Bukhara, and the Khanate of Khiva. From 1905, Pan-Turkist ideologues like Ismail Gasprinski aimed to suppress differences among the peoples who spoke Turkic languages, uniting them into one government.[1]

This idea was supported by Vladimir Lenin, and after the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks in Tashkent created the Turkestan ASSR. But in February 1918, the Islamic Council (Uzbek: Shoʻro-i Islomiyya) and the Council of Intelligentsia (Uzb. Shoʻro-i Ulamo) met in Kokand city and declared a rival Turkestan Autonomous Republic, battling Bolshevik forces until the 1920s as part of the conservative Basmachi rebellion.[1]

The Turkestan Soviet Federative Republic was officially proclaimed on 30 April 1918.[2][3]

In the late 1917, the TSFR was cut off from the RSFSR by the revolt of the Orenburg Cossacks, but held out, despite being surrounded by hostile states, until the arrival of the Red Army in September 1919 after the Counteroffensive of Eastern Front.[4]

Meanwhile, a power struggle among the Communists ensued between those favoring a Pan-Turkist government like Turar Ryskulov and Tursun Khojaev, and those in favor of dividing Soviet Turkestan into smaller ethnic or regional units, such as Fayzulla Khodzhayev and Akmal Ikramov. The latter group won, as national delimitation in Central Asia began in 1924.[1] Upon dissolution, the Turkestan ASSR was split into Uzbek SSR (now Uzbekistan), Turkmen SSR (now Turkmenistan) with the Tajik ASSR (now Tajikistan), Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast (now Kyrgyzstan), and Karakalpak Autonomous Oblast (now Autonomous Republic of Uzbekistan as Karakalpakstan).[1]

Date Name
30 April 1918Turkestan Soviet Federative Republic (constitution adopted 15 October 1918)
24 September 1920Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (constitution approved 24 September 1920)
30 December 1922Turkestan A.S.S.R. part of Soviet Union (within Russian S.F.S.R.)
27 October 1924Dissolved

Flag
  • Flag of Turkestan ASSR (1919–1921)
    Flag of Turkestan ASSR (1919–1921)
  • Flag of Turkestan ASSR (1921–1924)[citation needed]
    Flag of Turkestan ASSR (1921–1924)

Chairmen of the Central Executive Committee[5]
  1. Kobozev, Pyotr Alekseevich (April – May 1918), Solkin, Andrey Fedorovich, contributor (April – 2 June 1918)
  2. Tobolin, Ivan Osipovich (2 June – 5 October 1918)
  3. Votintsev, Vsevolod Dmitrievich (October 1918 – 19 January 1919)
  4. – (19 January – 31 March 1919)
  5. Kazakov, Aristarkh Andreevich (31 March – July 1919)
  6. Kobozev, Pyotr Alekseevich (July – September 1919)
  7. Apin, Ivan Andreevich (September 1919 – January 1920)
  8. Ryskulov, Turar Ryskulovich (January – 21 July 1920)
  9. Biserov, Mukhammedzhan (21 July – August 1920)
  10. Rakhimbaev, Abdullo Rakhimbaevich (4 August 1920 – May 1921), Khodzhanov Sultanbek, acting, prev. (12 May 1920 – ?)
  11. Tyuryakulov, Nazir Tyuryakulovich (May 1921 – June 1922)
  12. Rakhimbaev, Abdullo Rakhimbaevich (June – October 1922)
  13. Khidir-Aliev, Inagadzhan (October 1922 – 1 January 1924), Dadabaev Butabay, vrid. prev. (August – September 1923)
  14. Aytakov, Nedirbai (9 January – November 1924)

Turksovnarkom

Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars ("Turksovnarkom").

Initial date Final date Name
15 November 1917November 1918Fyodor Kolesov (ru)
November 191819 January 1919Vladislav Figelskiy (ru)
19 January 191931 March 1919Post vacant
31 March 191912 September 1919Karp Sorokin (ru)
12 September 1919March 1920Turksovnarkom defunct
March 1920May 1920Jānis Rudzutaks
May 1920September 1920Isidor Lubimov (ru)
19 September 1920October 1922Kaikhaziz Atabayev
October 192212 January 1924Turar Ryskulov
12 January 192427 October 1924Sharustam Islamov (ru)

References
  1. Yalcin, Resul (2002). The Rebirth of Uzbekistan: Politics, Economy, and Society in the Post-Soviet Era. Garnet & Ithaca Press. pp. 36–38, 163–164.
  2. "ТУРКЕСТАНСКАЯ АВТОНОМНАЯ СОВЕТСКАЯ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКАЯ РЕСПУБЛИКА • Большая российская энциклопедия – электронная версия", Bigenc.ru, retrieved 2 September 2020
  3. "Положение о Туркестанской Советской Федеративной Республике – Викитека", Ru.wikisource.org, retrieved 2 September 2020
  4. Smele, Jonathan D. (15 January 2016). The 'Russian' Civil Wars, 1916-1926: Ten Years That Shook the World. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 228. ISBN 9781849044240.
  5. "Turkestan ASSR in Central Asia".

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