September 1917 – 31 October 1917]) was a 1917 conflict between revolutionary forces and loyalists of the Russian Provisional Government, which occurred in Tashkent, in what is now Uzbekistan.
The Russian Provisional Government began attempting to regain control in April, but the soviets tightly restricted its efforts.
late October], the Provisional Government fell, and loyalists attempted to disarm and imprison rebels, with partial success.
It was officially annexed the following year, by Tsar Alexander II, planned as the administrative centre of Russia's recently conquered lands.
Kuropatkin did not want to immediately announce these developments, however employees of the telegraph service spread the news to the general population.
5 March 1917], Kuropatkin read Nicholas II's manifesto of abdication at a town meeting in Cathedral Square, as well as Grand Duke Michael's renunciation of the throne and a message from Georgy Lvov.
Kuropatkin asked them to pledge their loyalty to the State Duma, work toward a military victory, and maintain public order.
A new commander was elected for the Turkestan Military District, Colonel Leonty Nikolaevich Cherkes, who would later attain the rank of Major General.
They appointed a Turkestan Committee in Petrograd, with an N. N. Shchepkin as its chairman and an additional four Russian and four Muslim members.
Despite Nalivkin and Shendrikov's efforts, the two soviets maintained their authority, and the Provisional Government could not undertake any actions without their permission.
21–27 June] meeting of the regional Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, out of thirty-one individuals with the right to vote, twenty-four were Mensheviks and seven were Bolsheviks.
[2] The Turkestan Committee was aware of the severity of the situation in Tashkent, and attempted to dispatch a commissar general to the region, however in late August, this was cut short by the Kornilov affair, which strengthened the revolutionary movement.
Rumours among Russians that native populations were hoarding food as the shortage grew more severe on 22 September [O.S.
9 September], when indigenous people from surrounding areas arrived in Tashkent to purchase food for the approaching Muslim holidays.
11 September], soldiers from the First Siberian Regiment searched natives on a train for food, confiscating what they found.
This move upset both the regional soviet and the Provisional Government, and General Cherkes mobilised cadets from the military school to arrest most of the committee.
The Committee managed to free and arm the cadets, and amass a total force of 900, stationed at the local fortress and throughout all government buildings in the city.
29 September to 10 October], and moderates failed to convince the congress to condemn the disbanded Revolutionary Committee, walking out in response.
18–19 October], an opposing artillery company in the fortress ignored his orders to disarm, causing loyalist troops to fire at them with machine guns.
Martial law was again declared, and the disarming of rebellious units was ordered, as well as the arrests of all leaders of the rebellion in September.
[2] The rebels amassed a force of 3,000, which included German and Hungarian prisoners of war, which successfully disarmed three of sotnias of loyal Cossacks.
The Semirechye Oblast refused to grant recognition to the Tashkent Soviet, and Samarkand's professional unions decided they would not send delegates to the city at a meeting on 14 December.
In January of the following year, the Muslim clergy of Fergana published a manifest which condemned Russians as "infidels and tyrants".
[3] The Muslim government which controlled Fergana was overthrown, but struggles continued with Bukharan Revolution, which interrupted traffic along the Trans-Caspian Railway.