This article analyzes the socio-economic and political processes that emerged in Turkestan during the years of the First World War. As the military needs of the Russian Empire increased during the war, the large-scale mobilization of resources from the population, the introduction of new taxes, and the issue of recruiting the local population for military service became matters of significant importance.

Turkestan Region, World War I, military obligation, mobilization policy, Russian Empire, the 1916 uprising, socio-economic crisis, colonial policy, tax system, ethnic groups, Semirechye Province, local population, protest movements, requisition, historical processes.

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