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The Bukharan People's Soviet Republic ( state which governed the former Emirate Of Bukhara during the period immediately following the Russian Revolution from 1920 - 1924 . It eventually became part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (Uzbek SSR). In 1868 , the Russian Empire forced the Emirate of Bukhara to accept the status of Protectorate . Over the next 40 years, the Russians slowly eroded at Bukhara’s territory, but never actually annexed the city of Bukhara itself. However, the Emir could not shut out all outside influences, and gradually the disaffected youth of Bukhara gravitated to Pan-Turkism inspired by Kemal Atatürk 's revolution against the Ottoman Empire , ideas taken from the Islamic Jadid reform movement, and the new Bolshevik -inspired Communism . These various ideologies coalesced in the Young Bukharan Movement, led by Faizullah Khojaev . In March 1918 , the Bolshevik government of Turkestan in Tashkent marched an army to the gates of Bukhara and demanded that the emir surrender the city to the Young Bukharan Movement. The emir responded by murdering the Bolshevik delegation, along with several hundred Russian inhabitants of Bukhara and the surrounding territories, and sending the ill-equipped and ill-disclipined Bolshevik army back to Tashkent. However, the emir had won only a temporary respite. On 2 September 1920, an army of well-disclipined and well equipped Red Army troops under the command of General Mikhail Frunze attacked the city. After four days of fighting, the emir’s citadel (Arc) was destroyed, the red flag was raised from the top of Kalan Minaret , and Emir Alim Khan was forced to flee to the hills, then to Dushanbe , and finally to Kabul , Afghanistan . The Bukharan People's Republic was proclaimed on 8 October 1920 under Faizullah Khojaev. During the first few years of the Russian Revolution, Lenin relied on a policy of encouraging local revolution under the aegis of the local Bourgeoisie , and in the early years of Bolshevik rule the Communists sought the assistance of the Jadids in pushing through radical social and educational reforms. Only two weeks after the proclamation of the People's Republic, Communist Party membership in Bukhara soared to 14,000 as the local inhabitants were eager to prove their loyality to the new regime. As the Soviet Union stabilized, it could afford to purge itself of opportunists and potential Nationalists . A series of Purges stripped membership down to 1000 in 1922 . From with parts in Tajikistan . Khojaev survived the purges and became the first President of the Uzbek SSR, but he was later purged in the 1930s together with virtually the entire Intelligentsia of Central Asia . |
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