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The Basmachi Revolt: Central Asia's Anti-Soviet Guerrilla War
After the Russian Empire fell and the Bolsheviks seized power, Central Asia erupted in a decade-long guerrilla war that few outside the region remember. The Basmachi movement — 'brigands' to the Soviets, 'freedom fighters' to their supporters — drew on the energy of the Jadid reformers, the loyalty of the rural peasantry, and the terrain of the Ferghana Valley. This episode follows the arc of the revolt from its 1916 origins in the Tsarist conscription crisis through the capture of Dushanbe by Enver Pasha, the former Ottoman minister of war who joined the Basmachi cause…
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