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Nawab of Bukhara: The Last Khans and Soviet Delimitation
We trace the final days of Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim Khan, the last Emir of Bukhara, as he navigates the collapse of his dynasty against the rising tide of Bolshevik power. This episode explores the human cost of national delimitation in 1924, when Moscow redrew Central Asia’s borders, fracturing ancient cities like Samarkand and Bukhara between new republics. We examine how the Jadid intellectuals, once allies in modernization, were purged during the Red Terror, and how figures like Abdurauf Fitrat met their end in Lubyanka. Through the lens of the Basmachi resistance and the strategic…
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