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The Fall of Bukhara

The Fall of Bukhara

FromWitness History


The Fall of Bukhara

FromWitness History

ratings:
Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Aug 30, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In 1920, the Communist Red Army bombed the old city of Bukhara and took over the Central Asian kingdom. This was the end of an important centre of Islamic culture. Dina Newman speaks to the son of one of the Bukharan reformers who had made a pact with the Communists.Photo: The Last Emir of Bukhara, 1911 (credit: Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii; Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Prokudin-Gorskii Collection)
Released:
Aug 30, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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