Kazakh in the national policy of the Ural region in the 1930s

Abstract

The article examines the policy towards Kazakhs who settled in the Ural region in 19321933. The article analyzes the peculiarities of the recruitment of Kazakh families to industrial enterprises in the Urals as part of a campaign to promote the settlement of Kazakh (nomads) of the Kazakh ASSR in the first half of the 1930^s. During this period, several thousand people were transported to the Urals with the participation of the central authorities.

The authors conclude that the campaign in question was perceived by local authorities as an integral part of national policy, since during this period similar campaigns were conducted against a number of other Soviet peoples. It was distinguished from the simple resettlement policy by an additional set of measures for cultural and educational adaptation, taking into account the national characteristics of the arriving migrants, including cultural and mass work, assistance in learning their native language, work with young people, the promotion of “national personnel”, assistance in learning Russian as a language. This largely characterizes national policy as an independent managerial phenomenon in the life of the modernizing Soviet society of the 1920^s and 1930^s.