The Young Bukharans ( fa, جوان‌بخارائیان; uz, Yosh buxoroliklar) or Mladobukharans were a secret society founded in Bukhara in 1909, which was part of the jadidist movement seeking to reform and modernize

Central Asia Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a subregion, region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes t ...

along Western-scientific lines. In March 1918 they tried to seize power in Bukhara, with help from the

Tashkent Soviet The Tashkent Soviet was a public organisation set up in Tashkent during the Russian Revolution. It was established on 2 March 1917 at an inaugural meeting that consisted of thirty five workers from the Central Asian Railway. It was headed by a te ...

, and the Young Bukharans had to flee from the Emir,

Mohammed Alim Khan Emir Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim Khan ( uz, Said Mir Muhammad Olimxon, 3 January 1880 – 28 April 1944) was the last emir of the Uzbek Manghit dynasty, rulers of the Emirate of Bukhara in Central Asia. Although Bukhara was a protectorate of the ...

to Tashkent. They returned in May 1920, and this time were successful: the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ( Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...

took Bukhara and the Young Bukharans formed the first government of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic. Most of the members purged during 1936–1938. Young Khivans and Young Bukharans inspired the Kashgar 1933 '' Association of Independence''.

Prominent members

* Abdurrauf Fitrat * Abdul Kadir Mukhitdinov * Faizullah Khojaev * Osman Kocaoğlu *

Akmal Ikramov Akmal Ikramovich Ikramov (Russia: Акмаль Икрамович Икрамов; Uzbek: Akmal Ikromovich Ikromov; 1898 – 13 March 1938) was an Uzbek politician active in Uzbek SSR politics and served as the First Secretary of the Central Co ...

Mahmudkhodja Behbudiy Mahkmudkhodja Behbudiy ( Cyrillic Маҳмудхўжа Беҳбудий; Arabic script ; born as Mahmudkhodja ibn Behbud Chodscha) (* 20 January 1875 in Samarkand; † 25 March 1919 in Qarshi) was a Jadid activist, writer, journalist and leadin ...

* Munawwar Qari

References

*''Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union: A Revolutionary Strategy for the Colonial World'' by Alexandre A. Bennigsen and S.Enders Wimbush, University of Chicago Press, 1980 *Russia's Protectorates in Central Asia: Bukhara and Khiva, 1865-1924 by Seymour Becker Islam in Russia Islam in the Soviet Union Secret societies Emirate of Bukhara Uzbek revolutionaries Political parties established in 1909 Political parties of minorities in Imperial Russia Political parties of the Russian Revolution Bukharan People's Soviet Republic {{Uzbekistan-party-stub

Prominent members

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