The Communist Party of Khorezm ( fa, حزب کمونیست خوارزم; uz, Xorazm Kommunistik partiyasi) was a political party in the final months of the Khanate of Khiva, and after 26 April 1920 the Khorezm People's Soviet Republic/Khorezm Socialist Soviet Republic. In 1922, the party became affiliated to the

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. During the spring of 1924, when proposals for reorganization of Soviet Central Asia were discussed the leadership of the Communist Party of Khorezm declined to take any firm position on the issue. Only in July the same year did the party formally approve of the plans to form Soviet republics on nationality-based boundaries. The official Soviet histography at the time claimed that the Communist Party of Khorezm had been a nest of " bourgeois-and-

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elements, who hampered the forming of new Republics". Later, in 1924, the party was dissolved as the boundaries of Soviet Central Asia were redrawn, with the Khorezm SSR being split between the Uzbek and Turkmen SSRs and the

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First Secretaries of the Party

There were eight First Secretaries of the party during its four-year existence: *4 Apr – 3 Jun 1920: Alimdzhan Akchurin *4 Jun 1920 – 6 Mar 1921: Mulla Dzhumaniyaz Sultanmuradov *29 May – 12 Nov 1921: Muhamedzhan Izetdinov *12 Nov – 17 Dec 1921: Berdi Gadzhiev *17 Dec 1921 – 22 Jul 1923: Gaifi Sharafutdinov *22 Jul – 22 Sep 1923: Ishchan Masharipov (acting) *22 Sep 1923 – 15 Jun 1924: Karimzhan Adinaev *15 Jun – 27 Oct 1924: Isak Hansuvarov

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Khorezm Khwarazm (; Old Persian: ''Hwârazmiya''; fa, خوارزم, ''Xwârazm'' or ''Xârazm'') or Chorasmia () is a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia, bordered on the north by the (former) Aral Sea, on the ...

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