Turkestan Military Organization

[6] Ultimately, all the anti–Bolshevik forces of the region rallied around the Turkestan Military Organization – Constitutional Democrats, Mensheviks, right–wing Socialist Revolutionaries and bourgeois nationalists, Basmachi, and Muslim clergy, former officials of the tsarist administration, Dashnaks, Bundists.

In August 1918, in Tashkent, on the basis of the Turkestan Military Organization, the Turkestan Union for the Fight Against Bolshevism was created, which, in addition to officers, included, according to Soviet historians, such civilians as Count Georgy Dorrer, mining industrialist Pavel Nazarov, officials Alexander Tishkovsky, Shkapsky, Ivanov, technician Popov, engineer Agapov, constitutional democrats Shendrikov, Shchepkin, Mensheviks Zakhvataev, Levin, Mauer, Pogrebov, Skvortsov, Khvostovsky, socialist revolutionaries Funtikov, Domogatsky, Koluzaev, Khodzhaev, Belkov, Chaikin and others.

Members of this underground organization established contact with Ataman Dutov, General Denikin, Kazakh Alash Orda nationalists, Emir of Bukhara, leaders of the Ferghana and Turkmen Basmachi, Trans–Caspian White Guards, British consuls in Kashgar, Kuldzha, Mashhad.

Thus, according to the staff of the Turkestan Extraordinary Commission, shared by Soviet researchers of this historical period, representatives of the British special services not only helped the conspirators, they determined the goals and objectives of the organization and controlled its actions, which, however, is not confirmed by the known documents of foreign sources.

In October 1918, the special services of the Turkestan Republic – together with the Criminal Investigation Department of Tashkent – went on the trail of an underground anti–Bolshevik organization, after which a number of arrests were made among its leaders.