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Uzbekistan
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In 1929 the Tajik and Uzbek Soviet socialist republics were separated.
As Uzbek communist party chief, Khojayev enforced the policies of the
Soviet government during the collectivization of agriculture in the late
1920s and early 1930s and, at the same time, tried to increase the
participation of Uzbeks in the government and the party. Soviet leader
Joseph V. Stalin suspected the motives of all reformist national leaders
in the non-Russian republics of the Soviet Union. By the late 1930s,
Khojayev and the entire group that came into high positions in the Uzbek
Republic had been arrested and executed during the Stalinist purges.
Following the purge of the nationalists, the government and party ranks
in Uzbekistan were filled with people loyal to the Moscow government.
Economic policy emphasized the supply of cotton to the rest of the Soviet
Union, to the exclusion of diversified agriculture. During World War II,
many industrial plants from European Russia were evacuated to Uzbekistan
and other parts of Central Asia. With the factories came a new wave of
Russian and other European workers. Because native Uzbeks were mostly
occupied in the country's agricultural regions, the urban concentration of
immigrants increasingly Russified Tashkent and other large cities. During
the war years, in addition to the Russians who moved to Uzbekistan, other
nationalities such as Crimean Tatars, Chechens, and Koreans were exiled to
the republic because Moscow saw them as subversive elements in European
Russia.
Data as of March 1996
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