 Complete the following phrase:  The Bukharan Peoples Soviet Republic existed from 1920 to 1925 when the city was integrated into the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Fitzroy Maclean, then a young diplomat in the British Embassy in Moscow, made a surreptitious visit to Bokhara in 1938, sight-seeing and sleeping in parks. In his memoir Eastern Approaches, he judged it an enchanted city with buildings that rivalled the finest architecture of the Italian Renaissance. In the latter half of the 20th century, the war in Afghanistan and 