Historical figures in the works Alikhan Bukeikhan

Abstract

The history is made by historical figures. An important part of the spiritual heritage of Alash leader Alikhan Bukeikhan who fought for the independence of his country is his works which devoted to the life and activities of the world's intellectual elite representatives. A. Bukeyhan considered as one of his tasks is to introduce Kazakh society with the political and cultural life of European countries. According to him, it was necessary for the Kazakh national-democratic intellectuals of the early twentieth century to use living and spiritual experience of the European intelligentsia in their struggle for the independence of Kazakh people . The article analyzes the works A.Bukeyhan, in which he, through the study of the life and work of historical figures of Europe, defines the ways and methods of liberal-democratic ideas dissemination in the Kazakh steppe.