Article
French
ID: <
10.4000/remmm.9927>
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DOI: <
10.4000/remmm.9927>
Abstract
This article focuses on a particular moment in the history of the First World War in Central Asia: that of the revolts of the summer 1916 against the military draft for labour battalions, while the Russian army severely needed men after the debacle encountered in 1915. The example of the district of Jizzakh in the administrative region of Samarkand is analysed, since it corresponds to what the Soviet and post-Soviet historiographies considered as an epicentre. Here, it is needed to question this approach and to understand both the economic involvement of Turkestan in the war effort of the Russian Empire and the more precise logics of mobilization at a local level.