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Uzbekistan's Tsarist Turkestan: The Governorship That Remade Central Asia
Konstantin von Kaufman, the first Governor-General of Russian Turkestan, arrived in Tashkent in 1867 with orders to pacify and modernize a region the size of Western Europe. Over fifteen years, he abolished slavery, built telegraph lines and cotton gins, and imposed a legal code that sidelined Islamic courts — all while fighting a guerrilla war against the Khanates of Bukhara, Khiva, and Kokand. This episode follows Kaufman's 'civilizing mission' through the lens of his most controversial reforms: the 1873 abolition of the slave trade across Turkestan, which freed perhaps…
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