The partition of Khorezm and the positions of Turkestanis on Razmezhevanie

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dc.citation.epage1260en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber7en_US
dc.citation.spage1247en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber60en_US
dc.contributor.authorKarasar, H. A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T10:07:45Z
dc.date.available2016-02-08T10:07:45Z
dc.date.issued2008-09en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of International Relationsen_US
dc.description.abstractCold 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.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09668130802230770en_US
dc.identifier.issn0966-8136
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/23010
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668130802230770en_US
dc.source.titleEurope - Asia Studiesen_US
dc.subjectAdministrative systemen_US
dc.subjectcommunismen_US
dc.subjectIslamismen_US
dc.subjectPolitical borderen_US
dc.subjectWaren_US
dc.subjectAsiaen_US
dc.subjectCentral Asiaen_US
dc.subjectEurasiaen_US
dc.subjectKhorazmen_US
dc.subjectKyrgyzstanen_US
dc.subjectUzbekistanen_US
dc.subjectWest Asiaen_US
dc.titleThe partition of Khorezm and the positions of Turkestanis on Razmezhevanieen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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