Basmachi movement | |||||||
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Part of World War I and the Russian Civil War | |||||||
![]() Bukhara under siege by Red Army troops and burning, 1 September 1920 |
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Belligerents | |||||||
![]() (1916–17) ![]() (1917) ![]() (from December 30, 1922) |
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
120,000–160,000 | Perhaps 30,000 at its height, over 20,000 (late 1919) | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Officially 516 killed and 925 wounded | Unknown | ||||||
Tens of thousands of civilians killed. Several hundred thousand Kazakh and Kyrgyz people killed or evicted. Unknown number killed by starvation. |
Basmachi
Khiva
(1918–20) White Army
(1919–20) Bukhara
(1920)