Sovietizarea popoarelor Asiei Centrale în anii 1920-1940. De la desființarea vechiului Turkestan la edificarea homo sovieticus
Sovietization of the peoples of Central Asia in the years 1920-1940. From the abolition of old Tur-kestan to the edification of homo sovieticus

Summary/Abstract: The national revival temptation of the political elites of Central Asia after the fall of the Monarchy in Russia (following the Revolution of 1917) wouldbe immediately shattered by the new Bolshevik power, which excluded the idea of granting collective rights or forms of autonomy to the Muslim populations of the former Turkestan, using mainly their dynastic and clan-based organization, andless so the national one. Temporarily transformed into an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1918), Turkestan, whose populations inherited a common history and religion, would disappear as a toponym, in this area the Turkmen and Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republics (1924), Tajik (separated in 1929 from the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic), and Kyrgyz and Kazakh (1936) were established in turn.By 1937, the new Central Asian Soviet republics would acquire the unitary political facies desired by the Soviet power and occupy their own place in the new framework of the USSR according to their ethnicity (among Sovietology researchers, however, there is a theory that the borders then drawn by Moscow on national criteria had a relatively artificial character, since there were no unitary populations in the region, clearly delimited from an ethnic and linguistic point of view, which could be politically controlled).The article attempts to briefly summarize the methods of the Communist Center in Moscow - of true “engineering” in the social, ethno-linguistic and even spiritual religious fields – through which in the 1920s-1940s it pursued the Sovietization of the peoples of today's Central Asian region.

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