Ibrahim Bek
Ibrahim Bek | |
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| Ibrohimbek Chaqaboev/Иброҳимбек Чакабаев ( Uzbek |
Ibrahim Bek or Ibrahim Beg (
Uzbek Lakai tribe in Eastern Bukhara
and led an organized resistance against the Soviet military in the early 1920s.
A religious conservative and loyal to the ousted
guerrilla leader, Ibrahim was essentially a relic of an older time and was to find his increasingly sophisticated military tactics out of step with the political nature of the Russian Civil War.[1][2]
Bek and his Basmachi were engaged and defeated by
British intelligence services.[3]
Bek was eventually forced to flee south into
Fazail Maksum led several cross-border raids back into the newly organized Soviet Socialist Republic of Tajikistan. Bek was subsequently turned in to Soviet authorities by Tajik villagers, and eventually executed in 1931.[2] By mid-1931, the Basmachi had been largely defeated by the Red Army.[4]
References
- S2CID 159486304.
- ^ .
- ISBN 1-85367-280-7.
- ^ Krivosheev, p. 42.
Further reading
- ISBN 978-3-659-13813-3.
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