Paper short abstract:

The Basmachi movement in northern Kyrgyzstan took place during the collectivization in 1930-33, accompanied by the liquidation of the class enemies of the Soviet government and dispossession. The mass resettlement of the people was a kind of protest against the policy of the Soviet government.

Paper long abstract:

All anti-Soviet movements were the cause of persecution and mass repression in the Soviet Union. There was an endless stream of refugees from the USSR who sought salvation in neighboring countries. In Xinjiang they found shelter for refugees from the territories of the Soviet Union.

All the repressive measures of the Soviet government in Central Asia, against the broad masses of the people, were carried out against the background of the destruction of the usual centuries-old way of life, public Islamic institutions. The blow of the Soviets to the Islamic principles of social order caused particular indignation among the believers. By closing mosques and madrasahs, liquidating waqf lands, depriving the ulema of the right to resolve civil disputes, the Soviet government set against itself virtually the entire Muslim population of the region. So, the Basmachi movement in Central Asia in the early 1930s was the sharpest reaction of regional leaders to the policy of large-scale terror of the Soviet government.

An example of this is the fate of some Basmachi groups: regional leaders such as Abdylda, Kulchun, the famous Kazybek kazalchy (akyn-improviser), Syunduk, Tursun. They were forced to migrate from At-Bashi (this area is located 888 km from China) to China.