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Basmachi Rebellion
The Basmachi movement (, derived from ) was an uprising against Imperial Russian and Soviet rule in Central Asia by rebel groups inspired by Islamic beliefs. It has been called "probably the most important movement of opposition to Soviet rule in Central Asia". The movement's roots lay in the anti-conscription violence of 1916 which erupted when the Russian Empire began to draft Muslims for army service in World War I. In the months following the October 1917 Revolution, the Bolsheviks seized power in many parts of the Russian Empire and the Russian Civil War began. Turkestani Muslim political movements attempted to form an autonomous government in the city of Kokand, in the Fergana Valley. The Bolsheviks launched an assault on Kokand in February 1918 and carried out a general massacre of up to 25,000 people. The massacre rallied support to the Basmachi who waged a guerrilla and conventional war that seized control of large parts of the Fergana Valley and much of Turkestan. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War I
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting took place mainly in European theatre of World War I, Europe and the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, Middle East, as well as in parts of African theatre of World War I, Africa and the Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I, Asia-Pacific, and in Europe was characterised by trench warfare; the widespread use of Artillery of World War I, artillery, machine guns, and Chemical weapons in World War I, chemical weapons (gas); and the introductions of Tanks in World War I, tanks and Aviation in World War I, aircraft. World War I was one of the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflicts in history, resulting in an estimated World War I casualties, 10 million military dead and more than 20 million wounded, plus some 10 million civilian de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Kobozev
Pyotr Alekseevich Kobozev (Russian: Пётр Алексеевич Кобозев; 13 August 1878 — 4 January 1941) was a prominent Russian revolutionary, Soviet statesman and professor. He had played a significant role in establishing and maintaining Soviet regime in the Ural region, Turkestan and the Far East. Biography Pyotr Kobozev was born in 1878 in the village of Pesochnya, Spassky Uyezd (now Shilovsky District), Ryazan Governorate, in the family of Aleksey Fedotovich Kobozev, a Moscow railroad employee. Influenced by his mother, the daughter of a church acolyte, he went to a theological school and later to the Moscow seminary.Евгений Федоре�Пётр Алексеевич Кобозев: дело всей жизни 26 октября 2017 г. Информационное агентство Красная весна. In 1895 he left (other sources say he was expelled for participating in a student uprising) the seminary and entered the Moscow secondary scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghulam Nabi Khan
Ghulam Nabi Khan was an Afghan military general and the Envoy to France in 1926. He was invited to what he thought was a meeting with Nadir Shah where he could persuade him to allow King Amanullah to return to Afghanistan. Instead he was beaten to death and his six-year-old son was jailed. Ghulam Nabi Khan, a Yusufzai Sardar was also an ambassador to Moscow and was killed without trial by the authority of King Nadir Shah Nader Shah Afshar (; 6 August 1698 or 22 October 1688 – 20 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian history, ruling as shah of Iran (Persia) from 1736 to 1747, when he was a .... His father was Ghulam Haider Khan, a General under the Iron Amir, Abdur Rahman Khan.King Mohammad Nadir Shah: 1929-1933' from ''Afghanistan'', Louis Dupree (1973) References {{notelist 1932 deaths Afghan military officers Pashtun people Afghan Civil War (1928–1929) Deaths by beating Ambassadors of Afg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardar Shah Wali Khan
Field Marshal '' Sardar'' Shah Wali Khan (Pashto: سردار شاه ولی خان) (April 16, 1888 – April 1977), also known as Field Marshal ''Sardar'' Shah Wali Khan Ghazi, was a political and military figure in Afghanistan. He was a member of the Musahiban and an uncle of both King Zahir and President Mohammed Daoud Khan. He was a full brother of Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ... Shah Mahmud Khan, King Mohammad Nadir Shah and paternal half-brother of Prime Minister Mohammad Hashim Khan. He was the father of Lieutenant-General Abdul Wali Khan, cousin and senior power behind the throne of King Zahir during the 1963-1973 constitutional period and throughout their exile. Career *Commander of Royal Bodyguard in 1906 *Commander of Cavalry C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Nadir Shah
Mohammad Nadir Shah (Pashto/Dari: محمد نادر شاه April 1883 – 8 November 1933) was King of Afghanistan from 15 October 1929 until his assassination in November 1933. He became the king after his victory in the Afghan Civil War of 1928–29. Previously, he served as Minister of War, Afghan Ambassador to France, and as a general in the Royal Afghan Army. He and his son Mohammad Zahir Shah, who succeeded him, are part of the Musahiban. Background Nadir Khan was born on 9 April 1883 in Dehradun, British India, in the Musahiban branch of the Royal dynasty of Afghanistan (of the Mohammadzai section of Barakzai Pashtuns). His father was Mohammad Yusuf Khan, and his mother was Sharaf Sultana Hukumat Begum (a Durrani). His paternal grandfather was Yahya Khan, and his great grandfather was Sultan Mohammad Khan Telayee, the brother of Dost Mohammad Khan. Nadir's ancestors were exiled to British India by Emir Abdur Rahman Khan after the Emir realized their aspiration for po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fayzulla Xoʻjayev
Fayzulla Ubaydulloyevich Xo‘jayev (; ; ) was a Bukharan politician who served as the first head of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, which would later form part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Early years Xoʻjayev was born into a family of wealthy traders in the city of Bukhara (part of the Emirate of Bukhara) in 1896. He was sent to Moscow by his father in 1907. There he realized the tremendous gap between contemporary European society and technology, and the ancient, tradition-bound ways of his homeland. His father died in 1912. He joined the pan-Turkist ''Jadid'' movement of like-minded reformers in 1916, and, with his father's fortune, established the Young Bukharan Party. In March 1918, after the Bolsheviks had successfully established Soviet rule in Kokand, Xoʻjayev led an attempt to form a Young Bukharan government, with the Emir of Bukhara as a figurehead. For a few days, it appeared that they had succeeded, and had the Emir as a virtual prisoner, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magaza Masanchi
Magaza Masanchi (27 July 1886 – 3 March 1938; ) or Ma Sanqi ( zh, 馬三奇) was a Dungan communist revolutionary commander and Statesman in the Soviet Union. He participated in the Russian Revolution on the Bolshevik side. Karakunuz in Kazakhstan was renamed Masanchi after him. He was a victim of the Great Purge by Joseph Stalin. Career Masanchi was born in Alma-Ata and his father was a farmworker. During the Russian Civil War the Bolsheviks were interested in seeking the support of the non Russian Central Asian peoples. Dungans were invited to join the Red Army. Dungans residing in town joined the Red Army after serving in the Tsarist forces when going back to Pishpek, fighting for the Soviets in Semirech'ye. However, Dungan peasants were apathetic to both sides in the Civil War, it was reported that the Bolsheviks committed atrocities against the indigenous inhabitants of Central Asia. On the side of the White Russians were Rich Dungans and the Islamic Dungan clerics. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Lazarevich
Vladimir Salamanovich Lazarevich (, ; Sokółka, Grodno Governorate, 15 September 1882 – Moscow, 20 June 1938) was a Soviet Union, Soviet military commander, who commanded several military units of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. Biography Lazarevich was born into a Belarusian noble family. He entered the Vilnius Military School in 1903 and studied at the General Staff Academy (Imperial Russia), General Staff Academy in Saint Petersburg between 1909 and 1912. He participated in the First World War, first as senior adjutant at the headquarters of the 2nd Army Corps and ending the war as Lieutenant Colonel in 1917. After the October Revolution of 1917, he was elected chief of staff of the 18th Army Corps (Russian Empire), 18th Army Corps. In 1918 he voluntarily joined the Red Army. He fought in the Russian Civil War of 1918–1920 first in the East, as chief of staff of the 4th Army (RSFSR), 4th Army (November 1918 – March 1919), of the Southern Group of the Easte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantin Avksentevsky
Konstantin Alekseyevich Avksentevsky (; October 12, 1890 – November 2, 1941) was a Soviet Union, Soviet army commander. He fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and for the Bolsheviks in the subsequent civil war. He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner. He commanded forces in both Central Asia and the Caucasus. In July 1938 - February 1939 he was imprisoned in Ukhtpechlag. In June 1939, the criminal case was dismissed. He then worked as an inspector of the cultural and educational part of the farm "Novy Bor" at the mouth of the Pechora River. According to official data, he died on November 2, 1941, in the village Medvezhka in the Ust-Tsilemsky District. According to other sources, in November 1941 he was already in Moscow and he was killed when criminals attempted to rob his apartment. He was buried in Vologda, on the Vvedensky cemetery. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Avksentyev, Konstantin 1890 births 1941 deaths People from Babushkinsky Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Levandovsky
Mikhail Karlovich Levandovsky (; 15 May 1890 – 29 July 1938) was a Soviet Komandarm 2nd rank. He fought in World War I in the Imperial Russian Army and in the Russian Civil War in the Soviet Red Army. He participated in the Soviet invasions of Georgia and Azerbaijan. He commanded forces in both the Caucasus and Siberia. During the Great Purge, he was arrested on 23 February 1938 and later executed. Decorations *Order of Saint Stanislaus (1916) *Order of the Red Banner (1920) *Order of Lenin (1935) References Bibliography * ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; , ''BSE'') is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Great Russian Enc ...'', XIV, Moscow 1973. * W. M. Ivanov, ''Marshal Tukhachevsky'', Wojeizdat, Moscow 1990. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lewandowski, Mik 1890 births 1938 deaths Military pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semyon Pugachov
Semyon Andreevich Pugachov (Russian: Семён Андреевич Пугачёв; 26 February 1889 – 23 March 1943) was a Russian soldier who served in the Russian Imperial The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ... and Soviet Union, Soviet armed forces. He served in World War I and obtained the rank of Komkor in the Red Army. Biography Semyon was born in Ryazan to a family of a teacher. He joined the Imperial Russian Army, Russian Army on 10 July 1906, and graduated from the Alexseevskoe Military School in 1908, and the Nikolaevskoie Military Academy in 1914. During World War I, Semyon was a Captain (armed forces), Captain and fought alongside the 6th Siberian Corps, and then became part of the operational staff management of the Northern Front (Russian Empire), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Kork
August Ivanovich Kork (, also Аугуст Яанович Корк; 12 June 1937) was an Estonian Red Army commander ( Komandarm 2nd rank) who was tried and executed during the Great Purge in 1937. Kork became an officer of the Imperial Russian Army and graduated from the General Staff Academy. He served as a staff officer during World War I and in February 1917 was at the Western Front headquarters. Kork became a Bolshevik and joined the Red Army. He fought in the Russian Civil War, initially as chief of staff of the Bolshevik-sponsored Estonian Red Army and then as assistant commander of the 7th Army. In July 1919 Kork became commander of the 15th Army, defeating Nikolai Yudenich's Northwestern Army and defending Petrograd. He led the army in the Polish–Soviet War and in October 1920 became commander of the 6th Army, which defeated the last White Army in Crimea, led by Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel. After the end of the campaign, Kork took command of the Kharko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
