Cho’lpon and Abdulla Qodiriy are giants within Uzbek literature. They were also Jadids, Muslim reformers who lived in Central Asia in the 1900s and witness how the Russian Revolution and Civil War affected Turkestan, Bukhara, and Khiva. Learn how they shaped Uzbek cultural and literary identity and how they were vilified and murdered by the Soviets.
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References:
Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR by Adeeb Khalid
Night by Cho’lpon, translated by Christopher Fort
Days Gone By by Abdull Qodiriy, translated by Carol Ermakova
Art of Asymmetrical Warfare 