THE SOVIET HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE QUESTION OF KAZAKHSTAN’S HISTORY

THE QUESTION OF KAZAKHSTAN’S HISTORY 55
Science Academy News’, received criticisms that it exploited resources
of Middle Asian peoples cultural history from Persia and Syria, than
it follows that N.G.Apollova’s book, ‘Involvement of Kazakhstan to
Russia’, was criticized for not being adequetly examined.
In 1946, the Kazakh SSR Science Academy, History, Archeology and
Ethnology Institute was founded and attached to the USSR Science
Academy History divisiont. We can say that the foundation of the
institute played an important role in the improvement of state’s
historical sciences.
At the Kazakhstan Communist Party Central Committee meeting,
the USSR Science Academy, the research and examination studies of
Economy, Language and Literature, History institutes of Kazakhstan
divisions, and the scientific studies of social discipline departments in
Kazakhstan high school foundations were negotiated. The historians
were instructed that the history of Kazakh people must be written
according to Marxist doctrine. The proper course for scientific studies
of history declared that scientists are:
1. To prepare the second print of ‘Kazakh SSR history from the
ancient period to the present’ according the decisions of Kazakhstan
Party Central Committee on 14 August 1945.
2. To put archive materials into one system, to prepare a multi-volumed
complete works that includes documents from ancient
Kazakh history.
3. To research historical social ideas in Kazakhstan at the end of
the nineteenth century and to systematize it accordingly.
4. To publish materials and documents about the October Revolution
and Civil War in Kazakhstan.
5. To research the improvements of Kazakhstan’s economic, political,
and cultural development since the October Revolution.
6. To research Kazakhstan’s Party Organization.
7. To publish materials about the history of the Second World
War, to be called ‘Kazakhstan in the Second World War’. 69
The Kazakhstan Communist Party Central Committee instructed
historians and teachers of literature, as well as all the workers of
ideology, that they had to write history by taking the decisions about
the first edition of ‘Kazakh SSR History’ into consideration and to
prepare its second edition accordingly. 70 It insisted that historians and
69 Abdihalıkov M., “Besjıldık Jospar jane Qazaqstanda Gılımnın Mindetteri”, Qazaqstan
Bolşevigi, 1946, No 6, p. 29.
70 “Ideologyalıq Jumusumudın Darejesi Jogarı Bolsın”, Qazaqstan Bolşevigi, 1946, No 9-10,
p. 36.