Day 8 Fayzulla Khodjayev

Khodzhayev was born into an uzbek famili y of wealthy traders in the city of Bukhara, Emirate of Bukhara in 1896. He was sent to Moscow by his father in 1907. There he realized the tremendous gap between contemporary European society and technology and the ancient tradition bound ways of his homeland. His father died in 1912. He joined the Pan-Turkist Jadid movement of like-minded reformers in 1916 and with his father's fortune wstablished the Young Bukharan Party.In march 1918 after the Bolsheviks had sucessfully established Soviet rule in Kokand, Khodzayev led an attempt to form a young Bukharan government with the Emir of Bukhara as a figurehead. For a few days it appeared that they had succeeded and had the Emir as a virtual prisoner but in his account written later Khodzayev admitted that he and his fellow revolutioners had been "gullible"and had underestimated the influence of the clergy and the strength of forces loyal to the old regime.In the resulting reaction thousands of supporters of the young Bukharans were killed. In June 1937, Khodzayev though still nominally head of the Uzbek government was conspicouous absent when the Uzbek Communist Party held its Seventh Congress. He was not even elected a delegate. On 27 June ten days after the congress ended he was removed from office. He was aressted by 9 July 1937. In september Khodzayev and seven others were denounced as "enemies of the people'