The historiographic discourse of the problem «The Russian Revolution of 1917 and Kazakhstan»

Abstract

The article considers historiographic sections of the whole complex of research literature about the October Revolution in Kazakhstan. The author highlights the three largest layers of scientific publications: the first is a conventionally designated radical (non-Marxist) direction, which includes publications of authors who were relatively free from the need to adapt these events to certain schemes and interpreted them depending on their observation, vision and assessment of the events of 1917, the second - the official - orthodox-bolshevik direction, in this group of studies, built on the Marxist-Leninist methodology; and the third - works within the framework of historical revisionism, which offered an audit of the existing historical concepts with respect to October 1917, but retained the features of Soviet historiography. And each of these layers in one way or another manifested itself in different chronological periods of time. Also, the author the author proposed a fragment of contemporary foreign historiography on the on the topic.