Crossroads of Civilization: A History of Central Asia Season 1 Episode 17 Colonial Turkestan and Tashkent

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 edge of Russian rule.