Enver Pasha's campaign in Bukhara
| Enver Pasha's campaign in Bukhara | |||||||||
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| Part of Enver Pasha's Rebellion | |||||||||
Enver Pasha's influence in Central Asia (shaded areas on map) | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Basmachi movement Military support: Afghanistan |
Russian SFSR Bukharan PSR Khorezm PSR Dashnaktsutyun | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Enver Pasha (WIA) Molla Abdulkahhar Devletmend Beg Ibrahim Bek Faizal Maksum Turdu Toksab Hurram Bek Junaid Khan Abdulkhai Arifov Korşirmat |
Leon Trotsky Mikhail Frunze Semyon Budyonny Sergey Kamenev Jēkabs Peterss M. Marosin † Fayzulla Xoʻjayev N. Kakurin P. Pavlov Georges Agabekov | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 7,000–26,000 | 100,000–200,000 (reserves); over 20,000 in combat | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| See § Casualties | See § Casualties | ||||||||
In January 1922, the Basmachi movement under the command of Turkish general Enver Pasha launched a military campaign to wrest control of Bukhara and Khorezm from Soviet forces led by Mikhail Frunze, Semyon Budyonny and Kamenev. The Basmachis seized most of the Bukharan and Khorezm People's Soviet Republics, challenging Soviet authority in the region by May, but Soviet counter-offensives in June forced the Basmachis to end their operation. The campaign formed part of the broader Basmachi Movement against Soviet rule in Central Asia following the Russian Civil War.