The Revolt of 1916 in Russian Central Asia

by Edward Dennis Sokol and S. Frederick Starr

The definitive study of a nearly forgotten genocide, reissued with a new foreword.

During the summer of 1916, approximately 270,000 Central Asians--Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks--perished at the hands of the Russian army in a revolt that began with resistance to the Tsar's World War I draft. In addition to those killed outright, tens of thousands of men, women, and children died while trying to escape over treacherous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421420503
• ISBN13: 9781421420509
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"