The Newspaper “Kazak” and its Opponents in the Kazakh Society during the First World War
Газета «Казах» и ее оппоненты в казахском обществе в годы Первой мировой войны
Absadyk A.A. Boranbaeva B.S. Mukhitov K. Legkiy D.M.
1 September 2022Cherkas Global University Press
Bylye Gody
2022#17Issue 31470 - 1481 pp.
The objective circumstances associated with the outbreak of the First World War (including Turkeys intervention on the side of Germany) and the uprising of 1916 in the Kazakh steppe and Turkestan determined the steady distrust of the state bodies of the Russian Empire in the social activities of the Kazakh Intelligence, especially in the position of the newspaper “Kazak” (which was called only “Muslim”), which was accompanied by increased attention to it from the gendarme department. Corresponding was the reaction of local authorities and employees of the Orenburg provincial gendarmerie to the articles published in the newspaper “Kazak”, to its wide material support by the Kazakh population, including from abroad (Turkey, China). An analysis of archival documents about an organized campaign of denunciations to the editorial office of the Kazakh-language press, in order to discredit the activities of employees, which showed an increase in contradictions in the enlightened part of Kazakh society, leads the authors to the conclusion that the tsarist authorities did not fail to take advantage of this. Despite the fact that as a result of a thorough study by the police department of the content of denunciations against the Kazak newspaper, the biased, unjustified nature of the accusations by the steppe aristocracy against the editors of the press organ was revealed, state interests demanded the strengthening of protective measures. The use of previously unstudied source materials in the archives of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation (correspondence of the police department and the Orenburg governor, reports of the gendarmerie and police departments) made it possible to show the results of a political investigation of the editors of the Kazak newspaper, to highlight the details of the confrontation among the Kazakh political elite. Copyright
Alash , Baitursynov , Bukeikhanov , Dulatov , gendarmerie , Haykap journal , Kazak newspaper , Orenburg , periodicals , Russian Empire
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A. Baitursynov Kostanay Regional University, Kostanay, Kazakhstan
M. Utemisov West Kazakhstan university, Uralsk, Kazakhstan
Atyrau state University named after H. Dosmukhamedov, Atyrau, Kazakhstan
A. Baitursynov Kostanay Regional University
M. Utemisov West Kazakhstan university
Atyrau state University named after H. Dosmukhamedov
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