FILLING IN THE BLANKS OF HISTORY

Leading researcher of the Service of Social, Humanitarian and Educational Projects of the Library of Elbassy Aslan Azerbaev took part in the Republican round table "Methodological Approaches to the Study of Everyday Stalinism: Stalinist Peasants," organized by the Institute of History and Ethnology named after Ch. Valikhanov of the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Education of Kazakhstan. The event was held online.

During the round table, participants discussed new theoretical and methodological approaches to studying the peasantry in Kazakhstan, types of sources and problems of source studies on the history and everyday life of the Soviet peasantry, issues of domestic and foreign historiography on the history of the peasantry during Stalinism.

Since Kazakhstan gained sovereignty and independence, Kazakhstan's historical science is changing methodological postulates, modern historiography fills in the blanks of the history of the Soviet state, revealing the inhumane policy of totalitarianism towards the peasantry. Today, the issue of studying the peasantry in Kazakhstan in the context of power modernization in the 1920s-1930s and its consequences in the post-war period is being updated. Kazakhstan, in addition to being a supplier of heavy industry products, was a significant region in the all-union agricultural production. The period of Stalinism was characterized by the totalitarian regime's pressure on all segments of the population. In particular, this affected the rural population, whose life was aggravated by natural disasters, strict laws and taxes to restore the destroyed economy.

Leading researcher of the Library of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Elbassy, PhD A. Azerbaev made a report on the place of religion in the rural everyday life of the post-war period.

- Stalinist totalitarianism, which quickly destroyed everything the nomadic civilization of the Kazakhs possessed and kept, will always be a tragic page in the history of the Kazakh people. The First President of Kazakhstan N. Nazarbayev in the book "In the Flow of History" wrote: "Totalitarian ideology, because of its comprehensiveness, could not but claim to replace any religious system. That is why the relations between totalitarianism and religion were tense, regardless of religion, geography, history or nationality," Azerbaev said in his speech. - Contrary to the doctrine of totalitarianism to eradicate all national, the Kazakh village, despite the "militant atheism" of Stalinism, in the post-war period revived religious traditions and national spirituality, expressed in Kazakh Islam. The study of the problems of the history of the Kazakh village is of particular importance. As Elbassy noted, "The Kazakh aul has always remained a source of potential national revival and a marker of national identity."