POLITICAL REPRESSIONS IN GORNY ALTAI (1920–THE 1950S): SOME RESULTS AND PROBLEMS OF REHABILITATION

Abstract

Based on the works of predecessors and documents of the Central State Archives of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the State Archives of the Novosibirsk Region, and the Office of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Altai, now concentrated in the State Archives of the Republic of Altai, some results of the study of political repressions in the 1920s–1950s of the 20th century are summed up. In the Oirot Autonomous Region of the RSFSR (now the Republic of Altai of the Russian Federation) and rehabilitation, including for the Kazakhs. Excluding administrative repressions, according to incomplete data in 1920-1949 569 Kazakhs were repressed in Oirotia. The Kazakhs in the autonomous region were the third largest people; they maintained family and other ties with the Kazakhs of Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China. In the border zone, the foreign policy factor, migrations, including forced flight from Russia and Kazakhstan outside the Soviet Union due to violent economic and political campaigns and repressions of punitive bodies, had an important role in the fate of the local population. The creation in the Republic of Kazakhstan of the State Commission for the Complete Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression made it possible for the first time to raise the “refugee issue” in the context of political repression in the USSR in the 1920s and 1930s. 20th century and the expediency of the full (political, legal) rehabilitation of victims and victims of repression. A new approach is being formed in the study of a complex problem.