THE SOVIET HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE QUESTION OF KAZAKHSTAN’S HISTORY

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Russians was told with songs and folk songs. Jubanov was awarded
the degree of Doctor of Art for this book.
Many harmful ideas and heroes are also included in many games,
theaters, and the operas staged in Kazakhstan. Musiperov, the writer
of many drama works, was dismissed by the party. “Kız Jibek”, “Er
Targın”, “Kambar ve Nazım” epics were found to be dangerous by
Kazakhstan Communist Party Central Committee in 1950, assuming
that these epics glorified the khanates’ generous and rich life of the
feudal-patriarchal class. For example, “Alash Orda” famous leader Halil
Gabbasov’s own brother, A.M. Gabbasov, was appointed as director
of Satpayev Desert Land Research Institute. Satpayev’ son-in-law,
Alkey Murgulan who had PhD in philology, wrote no useful scientific
work except the one 1939-1940 piece regarding Edige. In his article,
M. Argulan praised the common enemy of Russian and Kazakh people,
and showed Edige as a real example and protector of Kazakhs. This
work of Margulan was published after the Communist Party Central
Committee claimed that Edige had a reactionary character.
Satpayev coming from wealthy family, protected and defended his famous
revolutionary brother from the Alaş orda movement for a long time…
Geological Institute headed by president of the Academy Satbayev,
was filled with highly unreliable non-political persons. After the
decision of the Kazakhstan Communist Party Central Committee in
1950, there were 10 people who were children of Trotskyites, deserters
from the army, spies in foreign countries and members of “Alash Orda”
bourgeois-nationalist party. Although the president of the Academy
came from a very rich family, his two brothers had been prosecuted
by the Soviet government. Satbayev in the meantime did hide his work
with in Alaş Orda between 1917-1919.
Because the materials of the investigation will soon be discussed at a
meeting of Kazakhstan Communist Party Central Committee, we think it
is right change the administrators of the Kazakh SSR Science Academy”. 44
It was obvious how scientific works were being conducted and
worsening political level of KP employees of the Central Committee.
Çerniçenko and Şoyınbayev took this decision with the aid of B. M.
Mitreykin, who did not get along with K. Satbayev during his time as
secretary of SSSR Academy of Sciences and its various branches. In
his defense against First Secretary of the Communist Party Central
Committee J. Şayahmetov and SSS Deputy Director of the Propaganda
Department of the Central Committee V.S. Krujkov, K. Satbayev did
not take Kazakhstan’s divisions seriously in 1941-1945. He even made
44 . Satbayev, K. I., Sbornik Dokumentov i Materiyalov, Astana, TOO “IC-Servis”, 2009, p.
560.