THE SOVIET HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE QUESTION OF KAZAKHSTAN’S HISTORY

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THE SOVIET HISTORIOGRAPHY AND
but nonetheless seemed capable of uniting disparate visions of the
Kazakh nation. Bekmakhanov situated Kenesary’s leadership into
this anti-colonial environment evident in other imperial situations,
comparable to American Indian resistance (something the American
Historian Turner failed to do), and African and Asian anti-colonial
movements as well. It is fair to argue that Bekmakhanov himself did
not make these interpretations, that his work did not explicitly make
the broader connections to other anti-colonial movements, but the
interpretations he provided in his book are evident to students of the
global, nineteenth-century, anti-colonial resistance. The pity is that
Bekmakhanov’s scholarship has not been made available in translation
for scholars unfamiliar with his valuable contributions. Thus, while his
scholarship is devoted to Kazakh history, his work has much broader,
comparative application.
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