Muskom was the ''Central Commissariat of Muslim affairs in Inner Russia and Siberia'' set up by the

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in January 1918 as part of

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Mullanur Waxitov Mullanur Mullacan ulı Waxitov Mullanur Waxitov ( Tatar Cyrillic and , ), also spelled Vakhitov (10 August 1885 – August 1918) was a Tatar revolutionary active in the Russian Revolution. Early life Born in Kazan, he entered secondary school ...

was appointed as chair, although he was not a member of the Communist Party.

Mirsäyet Soltanğäliev Mirsaid Khaydargalievich Sultan-Galiev (, ; ; 13 July 1892 – 28 January 1940), also known as Mirza Sultan-Galiev, was a Volga Tatars, Tatar Bolsheviks, Bolshevik revolutionary who rose to prominence in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, R ...

served as the representative of the Bolsheviks. An initial congress was organised in November 1918. A second congress was organised in November 1919 and was addressed by

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and

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.''The Bolshevik Revolution:1917-1923'' by

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, 1950, p324

Central Muslim Military Collegium

Attached to Muskom was the

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(CMMC), which organised Muslim troops into a fighting force on the Red side. Soltanğäliev was appointed its chair in December 1918.

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was the chief of the culture department.

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