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The Red Flag of Bukhara: Soviet Conquest in Central Asia
We left off with the grandeur of Timurid architecture and the spy networks of the Great Game, but the story of Uzbekistan takes a sharp turn in the early twentieth century. In this episode, we explore the fall of the Emirate of Bukhara and the brutal reality of the Red Army’s invasion in 1920. We meet Sultan Said Khan, the last emir who fled into exile, and examine how Bolshevik forces under Mikhail Frunze dismantled a centuries-old Islamic state. The narrative shifts to the immediate aftermath: the creation of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic and the subsequent deportations of the…
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