The Basmachi Revolt, or Basmachestvo (Басмачество) as it is called in the Russian (русский язык  listen?) is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. Russian belongs to the group of Indo-European languages, and is therefore related to Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, as well as the modern Germanic, Romance, and Celtic... Russian language, was an uprising against Soviet redirects here. For other uses, see Soviet (disambiguation). The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Р... Soviet rule in Map of Central Asia outlined in orange showing one set of possible borders Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. Though various definitions of its exact composition exist, no one definition is universally accepted. Despite this uncertainty in defining... Central Asia.

The Basmachi Revolt against the Cultural imperialism is the practice of promoting the culture or language of one nation in another. It is usually the case that the former is a large, economically or militarily powerful nation and the latter is a smaller, less affluent one. Cultural imperialism can take the form of an active... cultural imperialism of Russia began in 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. Impressionist Monet paints Water Lilies. January 8 - Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli January 17 - The Professional Golfers Association... 1916. Soviet sources portray it as a movement of Islam ( Arabic al-islām الإسلام,  listen?) the submission to God is a monotheistic faith and the worlds second-largest religion. Etymology In Arabic, Islām means submission and is described as a Dīn, meaning way of life... Islamic traditionalists, together with common thugs and rabble-rousers as well as Islamic radicals. The rebels who started the revolt were called Basmachi, or 'Bandits', a deliberately pejorative term which has much the same meaning as Dacoity is a term used in the Indian subcontinent for armed robbery. The word is the anglicised version of the local word dakaethee, from dakoo, the local word for armed robber. The most famous member of this profession was possibly Indias Phoolan Devi. The term dacoit is often used... Dacoit in India. Other historians would argue that many ordinary peasants and nomads who opposed at first the cultural imperialism of Russia, and perhaps more importantly objected to Bolshevik Party Meeting. A Bolshevik (Большеви́к, derived from Russian word loosely translated as majority) was a member of a faction of Bolsheviks of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP), the Marxist political party led by Vladimir Lenin that seized power... Bolshevik brutality and requisitioning of food and livestock, were an important component of the rebel base.

The Basmachi had soon spread and multiplied across most of Türkistan (also spelled Turkistan or Turkestan) is a region in Central Asia, largely inhabited by Turkic people. It is subdivided into West Türkistan and East Türkistan. West Türkistan was conquered by the Russian Empire, thus sometimes called Russian Türkistan or Turkistan Krai. After the Russian... Turkestan. Much of Turkestan at the time was, ironically, not actually under the Soviet Russia against which the Basmachi were rebelling, but under other regimes, albeit regimes that were allied with Soviet Russia.

By the early 1920s, the Basmachi Revolt had become so widespread that the Soviet government realized they risked losing their Turkestani territory. Infighting among the Basmachi meanwhile made them weaker compared to the Soviet political establishment (who, by comparison, had a common purpose and single vision, in addition to greater military power). Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ( Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин  listen?), original surname Ulyanov (Улья́нов) ( April 22 (April 10 ( O.S.)), 1870 – January 21, 1924), was... Lenin's government made conciliations to national sentiment in order to quell the Turkestanis' objections to being politically a part of the Soviet Union, and the revolt had largely died out by 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). Events January-April January 1 - Irelands first regular radio service, 2RN (later Radio Éireann), begins broadcasting. January 8 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz January 12 - Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll... 1926.

The rebellion was a popular subject for The Ostern (Eastern) or Red Western was the Soviet Union and Iron Curtain countries take on the Western movie. It generally took two forms: 1) Proper Red Westerns, set in Americas Wild West, such as Czechoslovakias Lemonade Joe (Limonadovy Joe, 1964), or the German The Sons of the... Red Westerns, and featured as a central part of the plot of the films White Sun of the Desert (Beloe Solntse Pustyni/Белое солнце пустыни) ( 1969), a classic Eastern or Ostern film of the Soviet Union. White Sun of the Desert is arguably the best loved Russian film of... White Sun of the Desert (Белое Солнце Пустыни) The Seventh Bullet (Sedmaya Pulya/Седьмая Пуля) is a Soviet Ostern film of 1972 directed by Ali Khamraev. Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow. Plot In the same tradition as The White Sun of the Desert and The Bodyguard, The... The Seventh Bullet (Седьмая Пуля) and Telokhranitel (Телохранитель), or The Bodyguard in its English title, is a 1979 Soviet film. It is one of the best known of the Red Westerns and directed by the veteran feature and documentary maker, Ali Khamraev. Telokhranitel is... Telokhranitel (Телохранитель).

Sources & Further Reading

Mustafa Chokay "The Basmachi Movement in Turkestan" The Asiatic Review Vol.XXIV 1928

Sir Olaf Caroe Soviet Empire. Turks of Central Asia and Stalinism (London) 1953

Х. Турсунов Восстание 1916 Года в Средней Азии и Казахстане (Ташкент) 1962

Б.В. Лунин Басмачество (Ташкент) 1984

Alexander Marshall "Turkfront: Frunze and the Development of Soviet Counter-insurgency in Central Asia" in Tom Everett-Heath (Ed.) Central Asia. Aspects of Transition (London) 2003

External links

• http://www.ku.edu/carrie/texts/carrie_books/paksoy-6/cae12.html
• http://www.angelfire.com/on/paksoy/togan.html