Basmachi movement | |||||||
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Part of World War I and the Russian Civil War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Russian Empire (1916–1917)
Russian Republic (1917) Russian SFSR Soviet Union (from December 30, 1922) |
Basmachi Afghanistan (1929) |
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Mikhail Frunze Mohammed Nadir Shah |
Enver Pasha † Habibullāh Kalakāni † |
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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 (1918–1920)
White Army (1919–1920)
Bukhara (1920)