The party did not recognize the October coup and the power of the Soviets. Alash-Orda considered the suppression and liquidation of the Bolsheviks to be its main goal. On November 10, 1917, the leaders of Alash sent a “Declaration” to the Cossack troops who began an armed struggle with the Soviet government. The document declared the accession of Alash-Orda to the South-Eastern Union of Cossack troops, highlanders of the Caucasus, and free peoples, which was chaired by Aleksey Kaledin. Alash-Orda was in a military and political alliance with the Provisional Siberian Government, the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly (Komuch), and the Bashkir Autonomy. At the end of November 1917, Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev and Mustafa Shokai (Chokaev) participated in the organization of the Turkestan (Kokand) Autonomy, which accumulated the forces to fight the Bolsheviks in Central Asia.

 

Alash-Orda failed to get an official confirmation of its autonomy status from the State Conference in Ufa and Aleksander Kolchak. Within the party, a group was formed that advocated a neutral attitude toward the Bolsheviks and promised the formation of the Kazakh Autonomy based on the Soviet power platform. This compromise was not realized due to the defeat of the Reds in the summer of 1918 in the north, east, and in several western regions of the Kazakh lands. In 1918–1919, detachments of Alashevites were actively engaged in armed struggle against supporters of the Soviet government in Kazakhstan and were part of the White troops of Aleksander Dutov, Aleksander Kolchak, Boris Annenkov, etc.

 

In October–November 1919, after the offensive of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army (Red Army) in the Kazakh territories, the leaders of Alash agreed to talks with the Bolsheviks. In December 1919, representatives of the party signed an agreement with a delegation of the Revolutionary Military Council of the 1st Army of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, which provided for the complete surrender of the Alashevites giving them the right to amnesty. The capitulation marked the end of the Alash party as a political unit, although some of its activists tried to continue the struggle. On March 9, 1920, by the decision of the Kirghiz (Kazakhstan) Revolutionary Committee, the central government of the Alashevites in Semipalatinsk and its branches in Omsk, Akmolinsk, Turgai, and Petropavlovsk was dissolved.