Significance of the work of N.A. Nazarbayev as a source of history of independent Kazakhstan

Abstract

It is known that when studying the history of independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan, researchers rely on different data. In particular, it is important to use as a primary source the works of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N.А. Nazarbayev, who had directly participated in the beginning of the history of the independent Republic of Kazakhstan and with his own hands revived our history. Most of the work of N.A. Nazarbayev contains a mass of information about the objective social phenomenon of the end of the XX-beginning of the XXI century: the collapse of the USSR and the formation of independent Kazakhstan. Of importance are value and specificity of the work of the First President as a source of independence, closely related to the role and personality of N.A. Nazarbayev, the subject who created the source of the history of independent Kazakhstan.