Crossroads of Civilization: A History of Central Asia

Colonial Turkestan and Tashkent (1x17)

Air date: Jan 01, 2025

Russia-ruled Central Asia followed the example set by the European colonial empires. In Turkestan, learn how Russian administrators studied their colonized populations to better control them, and created a typically colonial legal system. In Tashkent, witness the division of the city into a European and native town, and oppressive conditions brought by urbanization and the brutal edge of Russian rule.