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Article: Uzbek literature.(Literatures of Central Asia)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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Today more than a hundred countries have recognized the Republic of Uzbekistan, which has the longest history of any of the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. It is a country with more than 120 ethnic groups.
It is well known that czarist Russia, starting in the 1850s, occupied the territory of Turkistan; as a result of the agreement between the Russians and the Chinese and a policy of colonization and occupation, West Turkistan became subject to Russia and East Turkistan became subject to China. The changes instituted by the Bolsheviks in 1917 did not bring freedom to the people of Turkistan; on the contrary, they successfully maintained the former ...