Power and resistance in Khiva and Bukhara
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
What did the 1917 reform manifesto in the Khanate of Khiva include? Write 4 points.
New-method schools, railway-post-telegraph, salaries for officials and treasury oversight, equality before the law of Sharia.
2
How many days passed from 1 February to 26 April 1920 (before the KhPSR was proclaimed)? (1920 was a leap year, February had 29 days)
85
3
Summarise the textbook’s assessment of Junaidxon in 3 sentences and add your own view.
He is described as a complex, contradictory figure: first he fought the khan and Russia, then the Red Army.
4
Write one similarity and one difference between the resistance movements in Bukhara and Khorezm.
Similar: in both, commanders and ordinary people took part and there was no single leadership. Different: in Bukhara the former emir and Enver Pasha were prominent; in Khorezm, Junaidxon.
5
Write a short essay of 5–6 sentences on the “causes of defeat”.
Sample: internal division, lack of a programme, the difference in weapons and military strength, NEP, war-weariness.