The 1937 year: Fate and tragedy of the kazakh intelligentsia
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In this article, the fate and tragedy of the Kazakh intelligentsia in 1937 is studied. The year of 1937 is the year of the most massive Stalinist repression in the Soviet Union. KAZAKH SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC (KAZ SSR) as a part of the Soviet Union was affected by Stalinist repression. In the years of Stalinist repression, several thousands of Kazakh educated people have been repressed. Among them, there have been well-known figures of the KAZ SSR, and they were intellectuals that participated in forming up of the 1917 revolution. Repressive totalitarian state destroyed the foundation of the Kazakh intelligentsia: Bukeyhanov, Baytursinov, Dulatov, Zhumabayev, Seifullin and others. During the year of 1937, betrayal, fear and charges against each other have been widespread. The charges against each other, the stigmas such as "nationalist", "bourgeois elements", "defender of the interests of the feudal lords”, were common, especially among the intelligentsia. The authors in this article reveal the essence of repression, powerless and defenseless position of Kazakh intelligentsia.
Keywords: repression; the Kazakh intelligentsia; nationalist; bourgeois element; class approach; the Soviet Union; Kazakh Soviet Social Republic(KAZ SSR).
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