Bukharan People's Soviet Republic

Bukharan People's Soviet Republic
Buxoro Xalq Shoʻro Jumhuriyati  (Uzbek) Бухарская Народная Советская Республика (Russian)
1920–1925
Flag State Emblem
Motto Butun dunyo proletarlari, birlashingiz! "Proletarians of all countries, unite!"
The Bukharan People's Soviet Republic in 1922.
Capital		Bukhara
Languages		Uzbek · Bukhori
Religion		Sunni Islam Sufism (Naqshbandi) Judaism
Government		Socialist republic
President		Faizullah Khojaev
Historical era		Interwar period
•	Monarchy overthrown	September 2, 1920
•	Established	October 8, 1920
•	Disestablished	February 17, 1925
Preceded by Succeeded by Emirate of Bukhara Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic
Today part of		Uzbekistan  Tajikistan  Turkmenistan

The Bukharan People's Soviet Republic (Uzbek: Buxoro Xalq Shoʻro Jumhuriyati; Russian: Бухарская Народная Советская Республика Bukharskaya Narodnaya Sovetskaya Respublika) was a short-lived Soviet state that governed the former Emirate of Bukhara during the years immediately following the Russian Revolution. In 1924, its name was changed to the Bukharan Socialist Soviet Republic (Bukharan SSR; Russian: Бухарская Социалистическая Советская Республика). After the redrawing of regional borders, its territory was assigned mostly to the Uzbek SSR and some to the Turkmen SSR.

In 1868, the Russian Empire forced the Emirate of Bukhara to accept protectorate status. Over the next 40 years, the Russians slowly eroded at Bukhara’s territory, although never actually annexing the city of Bukhara itself. However, the emir could not shut out all outside influences, and gradually some of the disaffected youth of Bukhara gravitated to Pan-Turkism, inspired by the Young Turks in the Ottoman Empire, ideas taken from the Islamic Jadid reform movement, and the new Bolshevik-inspired communism. These various ideologies coalesced in the Young Bukharans (Russian: младобухарцы, mladobukhartsy), led by Faizullah Khojaev. The Young Bukharans faced extreme obstacles as the emirate was dominated by conservative Sunni Islamic clergy. The ensuing conflict pitted the secular Young Bukharans and their Bolshevik supporters against the conservative pro-emir rebels, the Basmachi, in a conflict that lasted more than a decade.