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  2. Soviet Central Asia - Wikipedia

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    Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible Eurasian boundaries for the subregion. Soviet Central Asia (Russian: Советская Средняя Азия, romanized: Sovetskaya Srednyaya Aziya) was the part of Central Asia administered by the Russian SFSR and then the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1991, when the Central Asian republics declared independence.

  3. Russian conquest of Central Asia - Wikipedia

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    The Russians in Central Asia History Today. March 1956, 6#3 pp 172–180. Wheeler, Geoffrey. The modern history of Soviet Central Asia (1964). online free to borrow; Williams, Beryl. "Approach to the Second Afghan War: Central Asia during the Great Eastern Crisis, 1875–1878." 'International History Review 2.2 (1980): 216–238.

  4. National delimitation in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    On 25 February 1924 the Politburo and Central Committee of the Soviet Union announced that it would proceed with NTD in Central Asia. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] The process was to be overseen by a Special Committee of the Central Asian Bureau, with three sub-committees for each of what were deemed to be the main nationalities of the region (Kazakhs, Turkmen ...

  5. Commonwealth of Independent States - Wikipedia

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    At this point, 12 of the 15 former Soviet Republics participated in the CIS, the three non-participants being the Baltic states, which were occupied by the Soviet Union. The CIS and Soviet Union also legally co-existed briefly with each other until 26 December 1991, when the Soviet of the Republics formally dissolved the Soviet Union. This was ...

  6. Central Asian Front of the Russian Civil War - Wikipedia

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    The British feared that Soviet control of Central Asia could lead to instability in nearby Afghanistan and India. [ 13 ] Malleson coordinated with local anti-Bolshevik factions , including the Transcaspian Government , a provisional authority established by Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries in the region.

  7. File:SovietCentralAsia1922.svg - Wikipedia

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    The file size of this SVG map may be abnormally large because most or all of its text has been converted to paths rather than using the more conventional <text> element. . Unless rendering the text of the SVG file produces an image with text that is incurably unreadable due to technical limitations, it is highly recommended to change the paths back t

  8. How a drab Soviet metropolis became Central Asia’s capital of ...

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    Since the collapse of the USSR, Kazakhstan’s largest city (population 2.2 million and growing) has evolved to become the star of Central Asia. Here’s what makes Almaty worth a visit.

  9. Geography of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The Soviet Far East, the southern portion of Soviet Central Asia, and the Caucasus were the Soviet Union's centers of seismic activity. In 1887, for example, a severe earthquake destroyed the city of Verny (present-day Almaty), and in December 1988 a massive quake demolished the Armenian city of Spitak and large sections of Kirovakan and Leninakan.