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      The partition of Khorezm and the positions of Turkestanis on Razmezhevanie

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      Karasar, H. A.
      Date
      2008-09
      Source Title
      Europe - Asia Studies
      Print ISSN
      0966-8136
      Publisher
      Routledge
      Volume
      60
      Issue
      7
      Pages
      1247 - 1260
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      Cold War historiography, in many instances, explained the delimitation of borders in Central Asia as a part of Moscow's divide and rule policy in Turkestan. However, the viability of this approach can be challenged by an examination of the archival documents of the time and the actual publications of the nationalities commissariat under Stalin. Among the Bolsheviks of Turkestan, Uzbeks were leading the drive towards the repartition of Turkestan, along with their Turkmen comrades who were trying to gain land from the former Khivan Khanate, at that time the People's Soviet Republic of Khorezm. The partition of Khorezm between three newly created administrative divisions, Uzbekistan, Turkmenia and Kirgizia, played a key role in the demarcation of borders in 1924. However, from the point of view of communists from the European parts of the former Tsarist Empire, as well as others from the region, delimitation was first a betrayal of internationalism; second it was an immature project both economically and theoretically; and third, it was believed that the liquidation of the traditional Muslim states of Turkestan, namely the Bukharan Emirate and the Khivan Khanate, would have a negative impact on the image of the Soviet revolution in the eyes of reformers in other Muslim countries in the Middle East.
      Keywords
      Administrative system
      communism
      Islamism
      Political border
      War
      Asia
      Central Asia
      Eurasia
      Khorazm
      Kyrgyzstan
      Uzbekistan
      West Asia
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/23010
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      http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668130802230770
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