THE SOVIET HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE QUESTION OF KAZAKHSTAN’S HISTORY

THE QUESTION OF KAZAKHSTAN’S HISTORY 163
of combining life and the experience of establishing communism with
science of history to Soviet historian. The Party calls Soviet historians
for help in training Soviet society about establishing communism. As
N. S. Khrushchev has already stated, our younger generation should
know the successful history of Communist Party, the struggle of the
workers for enfranchisement and the glorious history of our country and
be educated in the soul of our party and the reform of working class.
Soviet historian saw and understood the role of intellectuals for
approving communist worldview in the ideological questions. Our
duty is to increase the scientific level on the ground of theory and
ideology-politics in the science of history and to prepare high-level
personnel that can solve hard scientific problems with respect to
Marxist- Leninist methodology.
We will direct our total theoretical power to the solution of the
important problems of history, to the learning of all the dimensions
of legitimacy of Soviet society and global socialist system, to the
examination of the common experiences of international communist,
working class and national enfranchisement movements, and to the
struggle with bourgeois ideology.
.... As members of the CPSU MK, we believe that Soviet historians
will fulfilled the task of founder of communism in the program of the
CPSU with all the power
Long Live Communist Party of Soviet Union, the great and important
power in the establishment of communism!” 276
Soviet historians continued their activities until the mid-1980s
(until Period 5) in the direction of the ideas stated above. It was during
this period that the Soviet government changed, which included
a “reconstruction” in ideology and “openness” policies awakened a
democratic soul in the Soviet Union. The issues, formerly prohibited
under pressure, scholars and others discussed and examined. This new
atmosphere, which covered all of society, institutions, and scientific
areas, was also evident in the historical sciences. In 1990, following
the disintegration of Soviet Union, the mission of the Science of Soviet
History ended and gave way to research centers of History throughout
the former Union and latter Independent Republics, to history departments
and new history dissertations emanating from these centers. 277
276 “Центрaльному Комитету Коммунистической Пaртии Советского Союзa”, Все
союзное совещaние о мерaх улучwения подготовки нaучно-педaгогических кaдров
по историческим нaукaм, Москвa, 18-21 дек. 1962 г., Moscow,1964. p. 512.
277 For further information on the development process of Soviet historian apart from the
sources above, please check: Elnur Ağayev, Sovyet İdeolojisi Çerçevesinde Türk Cumhuriyetlerinin
Tarih Yazımı ve Tarih Eğitimi: Azerbaycan Örneği (History Writing and History