THE SOVIET HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE QUESTION OF KAZAKHSTAN’S HISTORY

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peoples. Missioners like Nikolai Ilminsky, A. E. Alekterov and N. P.
Ostromov took an important role in applying these politics. Russian
government via repression supported the policy of assimilation which
was being applied in all aspects of cultural life.
The results of assimilation done in period of Tsardom of Russia
forms a base to cultural politic in Soviet period in terms of aims and
methods. After the October Revolution of 1917 with communist revolution
Soviet leaders, who wanted to control whole land of Tsardom
of Russia, continued the assimilation policy that was being applied in
period of Tsardom with aim to keep the non-Russian nations under the
roof of Soviet Union to make a new Soviet structure. The goal wanted
to be reached here is fuse the non-Russian nations into Russian culture
based Soviet pot and to prevent the differences and mismatches
caused by ethnic and religious beliefs. The Soviet nation’s, the new
nation that was planned to build, language would be Russian language,
and the culture would be Russian culture, and other different factors
would be combined under the Soviet brotherhood.
Very important mission was attached on science of history and
history to accomplish the building of planned Soviet nation. It was
necessary to build under common Soviet nation a new historical memory
of the very different nations who are fighting each other. It could
be done only with writing history again. Because, thanks to science
of history things that are wanted to be seen can be seen, and things
that are not wanted to be seen can be ignored. In this kind of ideological
state conception constructing fictional history on a good base
can make successful ideology that is being raised upon the state. The
official history made in direction of this fiction could take mission of
protecting the institutional continuity of ideology and institutional
integrity of state. In this way could be possible to canalize the individuals
and to determine society’s falls, movements and life styles. 247
From the begging of establishment of Soviet Union the Communist
Party gave a importance to rewriting history to reach their ideological
goals. Yet on December 8, 1930 on the meeting of the Communist
Academy History Institute, the head of science of history Pokrovski,
the mission of historians in Soviet Union describes as follows: “The
struggle in the field of history is the struggle for the main road of the
party... Between these two struggles there is a unbreakable relationship.
It is impossible to separate them... History is a very big weapon in
this political struggle... Compared to others history is a very important
political science. There is link between the previous political history
247 Hacısalihoğlu, F. “Azerbaycan’da Ulusal Tarih Yazımı”, History Studies, (Prof.Dr. Enver
Konukçu Armağanı), 2012, p.175.