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Tajikistan
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An acute food shortage struck Turkestan in 1918-19, the result of the
civil war, scarcities of grain caused by communist cotton-cultivation and
price-setting policies, and the Tashkent Soviet's disinclination to
provide famine relief to indigenous Central Asians. No authoritative
estimate of famine deaths is available, but Central Asian nationalists put
the number above 1 million.
In the fall of 1919, the collapse of the anti-Bolshevik White Army in
western Siberia enabled General Mikhail Frunze to lead Red Army forces
into Central Asia and gradually occupy the entire region. In 1920 the Red
Army occupied Bukhoro and drove out the amir, declaring an independent
people's republic but remaining as an occupation force. Turkestan,
including the northern part of present-day Tajikistan, was officially
incorporated into the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic in 1921.
By 1921 the Russian communists had won the Russian Civil War and
established the first Soviet republics in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belorussia
(present-day Belarus), Georgia, and Ukraine. At this point, the communists
reduced the party's token Central Asian leadership to figurehead positions
and expelled a large number of the Central Asian rank and file. In 1922
the Communist Party of Bukhoro was incorporated into the Russian Communist
Party, which soon became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
Thereafter, most major government offices in Bukhoro were filled by
appointees sent from Moscow, many of them Tatars, and many Central Asians
were purged from the party and the government. In 1924 Bukhoro was
converted from a people's republic to a Soviet socialist republic.
Data as of March 1996
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