Battle of Karshi (1921)

Battle of Karshi (1921)
	Part of Russian civil war
Date	1921
Location	Karshi
Result	Decisive Basmachi Victory
Belligerents
Basmachi	Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Ibrahim Bek; Enver Pasha ; Korşirmat	Unkown
Strength
~600	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unkown	Heavy

The Battle of Karshi took place in Qarshi, modern Uzbekistan, in 1921.

Course of events[]

The Battle of Karshi took place at the end of 1921, when Enver Pasha, Ibrahim Bek and Korshirmat and their units captured Dushanbe, after Karshi, and launched an attack on Bukhara. ^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ^[4]

References[]

↑ Moscow's Muslim Challenge: Soviet Central Asia (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, Inc, 1990), 41.
↑ Resistance to Russian rule and Soviet leadership did flare up again, to a lesser extent, in response to collectivization campaigns in the pre-WWII era.
↑ Soviet Studies, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Jul., 1981), 361.
↑ Shumov, Andreev, Shumov: Basmachism

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[1] Moscow's Muslim Challenge: Soviet Central Asia (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, Inc, 1990), 41.

[2] Resistance to Russian rule and Soviet leadership did flare up again, to a lesser extent, in response to collectivization campaigns in the pre-WWII era.

[3] Soviet Studies, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Jul., 1981), 361.

[4] Shumov, Andreev, Shumov: Basmachism

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