THE REVOLT OF 1916

Conscription, bloodshed, and exile in turgay and semirech’e oblasts

Semyon Chuikov. Escape of rebels to China. Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts named after Gapar Aitiev. 1936

Aminat Chokobayeva, a historian, on the Central Asian revolt of 1916 as the most crucial event in the history of Central Asia and Kazakhstan. The Russian Empire attempts to conscript the indigenous inhabitants of Turkestan for military service during World War I, the uprising and mouseholing of the nomads, and the reasons for the Tsarist government's failure despite the brutal suppression of the revolt.

Aminat Chokobaeva

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