THE SOVIET HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE QUESTION OF KAZAKHSTAN’S HISTORY

THE QUESTION OF KAZAKHSTAN’S HISTORY 53
Party Central Committee had planned to print 50,000 copies and to
translate the book into the Kazakh language. The first 20,000 printed
copies appeared in the Kazakh language. At the first meeting of the
Communist Party High Council, which took place in March 1946, approved
the Five-Years Plan for 1946-1950, and included commitments
for ‘The development and improvement of economy of USSR people’.
With this new era in the lives of the Soviet peoples, the Bolshevik
Party took full responsibility. There was guidance for issues, such as
‘Ideological studies must be increased to fulfill this responsibility’. 65
All areas of ideological and cultural studies of the party and states
were mobilized for this issue. All of the cultural foundations, like the
press, propaganda, science, literature and art, radio, cinema, theatre,
and museums had to work to train the communist laborers. 66 At the
office of Kazakhstan Communist Party Central Committee, discussions
occured about issues such as Economic divisions of the USSR Science
Academy Kazakh Branch, Language and Literature, History Institutes,
the studies of research and investigation, and the investigations of
social-economy disciplines in Kazakh SSR higher education foundations.
History specialists were instructed to write the history of Kazakh
people according to the Marxist doctrine.
Throughout August and September 1946, various organs of the
Communist Party Central Committee dealt with and seemingly accelerated
discussion about party ideology in ‘Zvezda’ and ‘Leningrad’,
the ‘drama theatre repertoires and the studies for the enhancement
of it’, decisions about the film ‘Big Life’, the opening of Communist
Party Central Committee Social Science Academy, reconstruction of
Party Higher School tied to the committee, and at party schools located
in each republic’s capitals. These discussions and state organs
demanded that social scientists produce the correct propaganda of
party policy and ideology to present to the public at-large. While
doing the ideology propaganda studies, the party demanded scholars
and others to abide by the party decision mentioned above and the
decisions of Kazakhstan Communist Party Central Committee which
were meticulously determined by the ‘Kazakh SSR History’. 67
According to the Communist Party Central Committee decisions,
it was compulsory for historians to participate in ideology activities
65 Shayahmetov, J., “Qazaq SSR’nin Halık Sharuashılığın Örekendetuvdin Besjıldık Josparı
men Qazaqstan Partiya Uyumunun Mindetteri”, Qazaqstan Bolşevigi,1946, No 7- 8, p. 21.
66 Ibid.
67 Shayahmetov, J., “O Sostoyanii İdeologiçeskoy Raboty v Kazahskoy Partiynoy Organizatsii”,
Bolşevik Kazahstana, 1948, No3, p. 18.