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by Alexander Morrison (Editor), Cloé Drieu (Editor), Aminat Chokobaeva (Editor)

The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War. This volume is the first comprehensive re-assessment of its causes, course and consequences in English for over sixty years. It draws together a new generation of leading historians from North America, Japan, Europe, Russia and Central Asia, working with Russian archival sources, oral narratives, poetry and song in Kazakh and Kyrgyz. These illuminate in unprecedented detail the origins and causes of the revolt, and the immense human suffering which it entailed. They also situate the revolt in a global perspective as part of a chain of rebellions and disturbances that shook the world's empires, as they crumbled under the pressures of total war.

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In the summer of 1916, the Central Asian territories of the Russian Empire erupted in revolt against Tsarist rule. Three thousand Russian settlers were killed as an unexpected crisis gripped an Empire staggering under the pressures of total war. Central Asia was the most remote, alien and least well-integrated of Imperial Russia's territories, and the skeletal colonial administration was ill-prepared. Tens of thousands of troops were hurriedly sent to the provinces of Turkestan and the Steppe, and at least 150,000 Central Asians perished in the subsequent military repression and reprisals by the settler population, while tens of thousands more fled to China. In the Soviet period the revolt became key evidence for an indigenous revolutionary consciousness among the Central Asian peoples, but interpretations of its significance were always ideologically contested.

This is the first English-language volume on the Central Asian Revolt of 1916 to appear for over sixty years. It contains contributions from leading historians of Central Asia from ten different countries, including many from the region itself. Between them they provide a comprehensive reinterpretation of the revolt, its suppression and legacy, from its original outbreak in sedentary regions of what is now Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, through the core area of violence in today's Kyrgyzstan, to the long-lasting rebellion on the northern Kazakh steppe. It sets the revolt within the wider context of the First World War, and of the continuum of crisis which engulfed the Russian Empire after 1914. It will be of vital interest to students and scholars of the history of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, Central Asia and European Colonialism.

Author Biography

Aminat Chokobaeva is Honorary Affiliate at the Department of History at the University of Sydney

Cloé Drieu is a Research Fellow at CNRS in the Centre d'études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques (CETOBaC)

Alexander Morrison is a Fellow and Tutor in History at New College, Oxford
Number of Pages: 384
Dimensions: 0.79 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: September 07, 2021
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