Struggle for Power Among Individual Exploitative Groups
With the overthrow of Tsarism (according to political scientist Zh. Medvedev, the February Revolution occurred without the participation of any parties or revolutionaries, driven by the spontaneous discontent of the residents of Petrograd and Moscow due to the sharp devaluation of the ruble, which caused hunger), the illusion revived in Kyrgyzstan that the new power would end mass repressions. The only desire of the Kyrgyz in this situation was to survive, to escape the bloody whirlpool, and to protect their offspring from extermination. The fear of the strength and cruelty of the colonizers deeply penetrated the mass consciousness of the people. After the bloody drama of 1916, A. Sydykov no longer morally considered himself bound by an oath of loyalty to the emperor. He participated in revolutionary actions, including the arrest of the head of the district administration. The Provisional Government appointed him as deputy district commissioner of Zaneimsky. In the commissariat, established in place of the administration, he headed the trade, economic, and industrial section, working "to provide free legal assistance to the indigenous population."
Despite the thirst for change, the revolution could not capture the main masses of the Kyrgyz population. They remained indifferent to the October Revolution, which in the Russian context represented the third revolutionary wave, the peak of the revolutionary process. This "peak" was experienced by the Kyrgyz people in 1916, after which the "Kyrgyz revolution" began to decline. Expelled from their native lands, brutally drained of resources, and scattered across Semirechye and Western China, having lost their strongest leaders, the Kyrgyz people were no longer capable of new open protests and mass political organization. Individual examples of Kyrgyz participation in revolutionary events were rather exceptions. The politicization of society, which spread in 1917 to a significant part of the indigenous Russians, in Kyrgyzstan, due to its specifics, only affected certain groups of the national intelligentsia, bourgeoisie, tribal nobility, and civil servants. It was thanks to them that various governing bodies began to emerge in different parts of Kyrgyzstan. For example, the Council of Muslim Deputies in Osh and the Kyrgyz Public Committee in Pishpek. Local branches of the parties "Alash," "Turan," "Shuro-Islamiya," the "Bukhara" union, and others appeared.
Separate information about these organizations, each of which operated on the principle of "self-governing," is provided by Yu. Abdrakhmanov. In his manuscript on the history of the creation of the Kyrgyz Mountain Region, he wrote that "there are no differences" in the "programs and actions" of these parties, and the division into parties should be viewed "as a struggle for power among individual exploitative groups." The southern wing of "Shuro-Islamiya," he reported, was led by the feudal millionaire Sydykbay, while the party "Turan" was headed by the former volost administrator and wealthy man Gazi-Minbashi. "Shuro-Islamiya" united in its ranks the highest Muslim clergy, imams, ishans, mullahs, and the feudal elite of Kyrgyz and Uzbek society; "Turan" included part of the students, teachers, translators, and traders; "Bukhara" consisted of manaps and part of the Kyrgyz and Kazakh intelligentsia. The author had the greatest sympathy for the party "Turan," as the "most progressive," advocating "for the allocation of Turkestan under the aegis of Turkey."
Yu. Abdrakhmanov shared dangerous thoughts. "In general," wrote A. I. Solzhenitsyn about this time, "the year seventeen was an unpleasant year, too many rallies, whoever lies more beautifully is carried on hands...".
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