Abstract:

Various nations with different cultures and religions, speaking in different languages lived in Tsarist Russia. Local Muslims living in the Caucasus and Central Asia were annexed to Tsarist Russia at different times. During this period, some of the rights of Muslims were ignored by centrla government and they were left behind from other regions of Russia in socio-economic terms. During the Tsarist period, Muslims who accepted Christianity became closer to central government and had the opportunity to progress in socio-economic terms. Such Muslims were generally more common among Tatars. Therefore, in the period of Tsarist Russia, Tatars were closer to the Russian government and the first Muslim mufti was founded in 1788 by the decree of II. Catherine in the city of Ufa. Muhammed Jan Hüseyinov was appointed as the first mufti. Despite some positive developments, Muslims living in Tsarist Russia were not satisfied with their living conditions and from time to time made demands for independence, freedom in civil law within their own society, economic development and other demands. As a result of the revolution that broke out in February 1917, the Tsarist administrative system collapsed and the Provisional government seized power. After the October Revolution that took place in the same year, the Provisional government left power and the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia. After that, the civil war started in Russia and with the end of the civil war in 1922, the Bolsheviks established a state called the USSR. Local Muslims living in the Caucasus and Central Asia helped the Bolsheviks to win in the civil war and ensured the spread of Socialism in regions with Muslim communities. In this article, we will reserch of the reasons and consequenses of cooperation of local Muslims with the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution, whose helped the Bolsheviks in the military field to spread the ideas of socialism among their own society and to seize power.

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