Sina (China): How did Russia swallow the countries of Central Asia? | History | Inosmi

These Central Asian regimes held back and balanced each other and were in constant struggle, unable to create a unified state, which provided an opportunity for Russian intervention.

Mediation of Russia

The vast Central Asian region is controlled, which invest most of the energy in European affairs. From the 17th to the 18th, the Russians, with the help of trade in Central Asia, gradually began to strengthen the economic control of the region. They took advantage of the desire of Central Asian merchants to acquire European goods and use appropriate policy measures to encourage Central Asian traders to enter the European market. Russian merchants also extended their hands far in Central Asia. In the future, since the Central Asian countries mainly depended on Russia in trade with Europe, any trade disputes and conflicts were also inevitably resolved with its help. As a result, the Russians, thanks to successful attempts, developed various means of incitement between the countries of Central Asia.

With the country’s economic dependence, we unwittingly admit intervention and political control from Russia.

The determination of the Russians

In the middle of the 18th century, a major Central Asian power, the Dzungar Khanate, collapsed under the onslaught of the Qing dynasty. This created a power vacuum in Central Asia. The Kazakh Khanate could not subjugate these territories, and this weakness attracted the attention of Russia. As a result, the Russians bared their fangs. First, they captured the Younger Zhuz, gradually penetrated east along the Ural River to the entire territory of the Kazakh Khanate, constantly replenishing the ranks of the troops with Kazakhs through a combination of threats and diplomatic strategies. Finally, in 1847, the northern Kazakh steppes were completely under the rule of the Russians (by the way, the territories southeast of Lake Balkhash were captured from China), and the Kazakh Khanate fell.

After the destruction of a major power in the north, the khanates along the Silk Road in the south turned into lambs for the slaughter. The Russians used an excellent strategy to divide and divide the three khanates. First, they stimulated territorial disputes between the Bukhara and Khiva khanates in order to cause enmity between these parties, and sent military forces to capture the Khiva Khanate, and united with the Bukhara Khanate against the Kokand Khanate, occupied Tashkent and the country as their vassal. In the end, the Bukhara Khanate, deprived of any external assistance, turned out to be completely and was presented to Russia on a “silver platter.” All of these political and military operations took place in just five short years. The Russians’ strategic plan and its implementation in this system applied their sober understanding of the geographic structure of the Central Asian region. The Russians used their advantages for diplomatic strategies.