Communist Party of Khorezm

The Communist Party of Khorezm (Persian: حزب کمونیست خوارزم; Uzbek: Xorazm Kommunistik partiyasi) was a political party that existed in the final months of the Khanate of Khiva, and after 26 April 1920, in the Khorezm People's Soviet Republic.

Communist Party of Khorezm
حزب کمونیست خوارزم
Founded4 April 1920[1]
Dissolved27 October 1924
Preceded byYoung Khivan Party
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism
Political positionFar-left
National affiliationRussian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1922–1924)
Party flag

In 1922, the party became affiliated to the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). During the spring of 1924, when proposals for reorganization of Soviet Central Asia were discussed the leadership of the Communist Party of Khorezm declined to take any firm position on the issue. Only in July the same year did the party formally approve of the plans to form Soviet republics on nationality-based boundaries. The official Soviet histography at the time claimed that the Communist Party of Khorezm had been a nest of "bourgeois-and-nationalistic and Trotskyist elements, who hampered the forming of new Republics".[2] Later, in 1924, the party was dissolved as the boundaries of Soviet Central Asia were redrawn, with the Khorezm SSR being split between the Uzbek and Turkmen SSRs and the Karakalpak Autonomous Oblast.

Party leaders

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There were nine leaders of the party during its four-year existence:[3]

  Denotes Acting leader
NameTook officeLeft officeNotes
Chairmen of the Communist Party of Khorezm
Alimdzhan Akchurin4 April 19203 June 1920
Mulla Dzhumaniyaz Sultanmuradov4 June 1920December 1920
Makhmud MusayevDecember 192029 May 1921Head of Political Administration of Khorezmian Red Army
Executive Secretaries of the Communist Party of Khorezm
Mukhamedzhan Tazetdinov29 May 192112 November 1921
Berdi Gadzhiev12 November 192117 December 1921
Gaifi Sharafutdinov17 December 192122 July 1923
Mukhamed Sharipov22 July 192322 September 1923
Karimzhan Adinaev22 September 192315 June 1924
Iskhak Khansuvarov15 June 192427 October 1924

References

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  1. ^ Ubiria, Grigol (16 September 2015). Soviet Nation-Building in Central Asia: The Making of the Kazakh and Uzbek Nations. Routledge. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-317-50434-4.
  2. ^ Central Asian Nations & Border Issues. Dr Mirzohid Rahimov & Dr Galina Urazaeva
  3. ^ Cahoon, Ben. "Uzbekistan (Khorazm/Khiva)". WorldStatesmen. Retrieved 19 April 2024.