REPRESSED KAZAKHSTAN WOMEN: VICTIMS AND SUFFERERS

Abstract

Introduction. The article uses data to analyze the fate of women during the years of political re pression. Since its establishment, the Soviet government has pursued its policy of punishment and persecution. He intensively took measures to involve women in socialist construction and carried out propaganda work in this direction at the state level. The purpose and objectives of the research. To reveal on the basis of the data that the Soviet authorities sought to "change" the social status of Kazakh women in accordance with the traditional development of Kazakh society; To confirm that the "status of th e Kazakh woman" was given political importance, and as a result, the "plight of the Kazakh woman" was "taken into account" at the state level, and special resolutions and laws were adopted in this direction; To study the fact that 176 the issue of "equal rights to women" raised by the Communist Party was carried out by means of political repression, the policy of attracting Kazakh women to the Soviet construction struck a blow to the "image of the mother" in the traditional way of development of the Kazakh soci ety; to examine the extent of social repression measures across the board, and data analysis of innocently persecuted women. Research methods. In the article, based on the data in the Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Presidential Ar chive of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Aktobe Regional State Archive, the Astana City State Archive, women who were subjected to political persecution were studied. Results. Political persecution was directed against family unity. Wives, mothers, relativ es, and children of persons whose husbands were detained as "enemies of the people" were subjected to massive political persecution. At the same time, there were many women who were politically persecuted among the women in the service and the representati ves of the deported nationalities. Even housewives were blamed for their unintentional thoughts. Lawlessness knew no bounds.