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February 1922 The Bukharan Communist Party comes under the control of the

RCP.

February 1922 Enver Pasha and the Basmachis capture Dushanbe.

4 August 1922 Enver Pasha is killed, resulting in the gradual crumbling of the

Basmashi Revolt.

December 1922 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is created, with the

Turkestan and Kirghiz (Kazak) ASSRs included as parts of the
Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR).

March 1923 The First Conference of the Turkestan ASSR and the People's Re-

publics of Bukhara and Khorezm establishes the Central Asiatic
Economic Council, resulting in the economic and administrative
unification of the three republics.

June 1923 Stalin denounces “Sultan Galievism” and the Muslim Communist

aspirations for an independent Turkestan.

October 1923 The Khorezmian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) is established,

replacing the People's Republic of Khorezm.

1923-1933 Intermittent Basmachi operations against the Soviets in Turkes-

tan.

January 1924 The death of Lenin and subsequent rise of Stalin to full power in

the USSR.

20 September 1924 The Bukharan SSR is established, replacing the People's Republic

of Buhkhara.

October 1924 The National Delimitation of Soviet Central Asia results in the

abolition of the Turkestan ASSR, the Bukharan SSR, and the
Khorezmian SSR and the establishment of the Turkmen SSR, the
Uzbek SSR, and the Tajik ASSR (as part of the Uzbek SSR).

27 October 1924 The Turkmen and Uzbek SSRs are created.

15 March 1925 The Tajik ASSR is created.

April 1925 The “Kirghiz” ASSR is renamed the Kazak ASSR.

1926 The Baku Turkological Congress proposes the adoption of the

Latin script for all Turkic languages in the USSR.

February 1926 The Kirghiz ASSR is created.

1927-1928 The liquidation of the Kazak Alash-Orda party by the Commu-

nists and the replacement of Kazaks by Russians in the republican
government.

1928 Soviet anti-Islamic campaign launched, resulting in the disband-

ing of Islamic courts and waqfs.

1928-1930 The Latin script replaces the Arabic alphabet in Soviet Central

Asia.