Figures of the Alash party of Pavlodar district. New archival sources

Abstract

The article is devoted to new archival sources containing information about the leaders of the Alash party and about the fight against bourgeois nationalists, launched at the end of 1936–1937, identified in the funds of the State Archives of the Pavlodar Region. Documents from the funds of the party and executive authorities, declassified documents from the Pavlodar Regional Prosecutor’s Office will significantly expand the understanding of the course of the political struggle for independence in the early twentieth century, about the tragic fate of not only well-known figures of the Alash party, but also its ordinary members and sympathizers, who were also repressed on charges of involvement in the Alash party. The documents provide an opportunity to shed light on the fate of many representatives of the Kazakh intellectuals, to give a fair assessment of the contribution of representatives of the Alash movement to the struggle for independence. Archival sources also contain information about the nature of the investigation, conditions of detention in camps and prisons, party censure of representatives of the national movement, repressions against freedom fighters, their future fate, political persecution of former oppositionists and party-Soviet cadres announced at the end of 1930’s bourgeois nationalists.