BOLSHEVIKS AND RUSSIAN TURKESTAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN 1917-1918

Abstract

The documents of 1920s still represent a huge amount of the valuable historical information on extremely significant problems that is waiting new fundamental studies. The period of the 1917 includes not only two Russian revolutions and explosion of the national liberation movement on the territory of the former tsarist empire that pursues academic interest towards issues still acute for the historians. How these historical events affected the international situation for the Turkestan region? What countries were mainly interested in the victory of Moslem political movements? Who supported financially these Moslem organizations? What factors promoted success of Tashkent Soviet to spread its authority up to Baku territories? A comparison of the native Soviet and post-Soviet works with archival documents from Britain’s Foreign Office (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain), journal articles had published in 1917-1918 can alter the vision of the geopolitical outcomes of «Great Game» had played by different foreign actors in the region of Turkestan.