Email this article 
Interaction of Central and Local Authorities with the Kazakh Population of the Steppe Region in the Field of Land Use in Late ХIХ - Early ХХ Century
- Authors: Lysenko Y.A.1, Omurova Z.O.2, Gundova O.E.1
-
Affiliations:
- Altai State University
- Jusup balasagyn Kyrgyz National University
- Issue: Vol 23, No 3 (2024): Ethnicity and Power in Russia: History and Modernity
- Pages: 299-309
- Section: ETHNICITY AND POWER IN RUSSIA: HISTORY AND MODERNITY
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/russian-history/article/view/41757
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-8674-2024-23-3-299-309
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/QUGXPW
Cite item
Full text / tables, figures
Abstract
The authors analyze the interaction between the central and regional authorities and the Kazakhs of the Steppe Region at the turn of the XX century on land use issues. The study reveals the problems in this area caused by the mass migration of the peasant population to the region and the process of land seizure by the state to create resettlement sites. The aim is to reconstruct the regulatory framework for appeals of the Kazakh population to the government bodies on the issues of land use, and the procedure for their consideration and decision-making mechanisms. The source base for the article is: the Kazakhs’ petitions and requests, as well as other office materials - interdepartmental correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports, resolutions and decrees - of the Governing Senate, as well as the Department of Agriculture and State Property of the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Justice, and the regional governments of the Akmola and Semipalatinsk regions of the Governor-Generalship of the Steppes as found in the Russian State Historical Archive. The sources used has allow the authors to develop the stated goal of the article, and they have been able show that the main form of interaction between the central and regional authorities and the Kazakhs of the Steppe Region on land use issues were the Kazakhs’ petitions and requests. If a decision concerning their appeals was negative, the Kazakhs had the right to turn to the Governing Senate, the Ministry of the Interior, and the State Duma. In such cases, there were official proceedings lasting up to several years. The decisions on them were necessarily announced to the plaintiffs. The authors concluded that the Kazakhs actively used the tools provided by legislation to resolve land use issues. Nevertheless, it is revealed that in most cases, the central authorities confirmed the legitimacy of regional administration decisions on the seizure of land plots. However, the significant number of petitions and requests testifies to the fact that in the matters of defending their economic interests the Kazakhs were given equal opportunities with other subjects of the Russian Empire.
About the authors
Yuliya A. Lysenko
Altai State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: iulia_199674@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1088-3578
SPIN-code: 1607-1789
Dr. Habil. Hist., Professor, the Head of the Oriental Studies Department, Institute of History and International Relations
61, Prospekt Lenina Av., Barnaul, 656049, RussiaZhamykat O. Omurova
Jusup balasagyn Kyrgyz National University
Email: jamyikat2012@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7104-3708
SPIN-code: 7161-6152
Dr. Habil. Hist., Professor, Head of the Regional Studies and Kyrgyz Studies Department, Institute of History and Regional Studies
547, Frunze Str., Bishkek, 720033, Republic of KyrgyzstanOlga E. Gundova
Altai State University
Email: olga.gundova13@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0009-0001-2574-0625
SPIN-code: 3268-5971
Senior Lecturer of the Oriental Studies Department, Institute of History and International Relations
61, Prospekt Lenina Av., Barnaul, 656049, RussiaReferences
- Anisimova, I.V. “Reglamentatsiia semeino-brachnykh otnoshenii v kazakhskom obshchestve Stepnogo kraia: traditionnoe pravo i imperskaia politika [Regulation of family and marriage relations in the kazakh society of the steppe region: traditional law and imperial policy].” Voprosy istorii, no 10 (2021): 52-60 (in Russian).
- Buktugutova, R.S. Ocherki istorii obshchestvennogo dvizheniia v Stepnom krae v kontse XIX - nachale XX v. [Essays about the history of the social movement in the Steppe region at the end of the XIX - beginning of the XX century]. Kokshetau: Kokshetau State University Publ., 2006 (in Russian).
- Bykov, A.Yu. Istoki modernizatsii Kazakhstana (problema sedentarizatsii v rossiiskoi politike XVIII - nachala XX v.) [The origins of modernization of Kazakhstan (The problem of sedentarization in Russian politics of the XVIII - early XX century)]. Barnaul: Azbuka Publ., 2003 (In Russian).
- Chernikov, V.S. “Krest'ianskaia kolonizatsiia Severnogo Kazakhstana v epokhu kapitalizma [Peasant colonization of Northern Kazakhstan in the era of capitalism].” Istoriia SSSR, no 6 (1982): 132-141 (In Russian).
- Galuzo, P. G. Agrarnye otnosheniia na iuge Kazakhstana v 1867-1914 gg. [Agrarian relations in the south of Kazakhstan in 1867-1914]. Alma-Ata: Nauka Publ., 1965 (in Russian).
- Kaufman, A.A. Pereselenie i kolonizatsiia [Resettlement and colonization]. St. Petersburg: Obshchestvennaia pol'za Publ., 1905 (in Russian).
- Kaufman, A.A. Pereselentsy-arendatory Turgaiskoi oblasti [Migrants-tenants of the Turgai region]. St. Petersburg: Tipografiia V. Bezobrazova Publ., 1897 (in Russian).
- Konshin, N.Ia. “K voprosu o perekhode kirgiz Semipalatinskoi oblasti v osedloe sostoianie [To the issue of the transition of the Kyrgyz Semipalatinsk region to a sedentary state].” Pamiatnaia knizhka Semipalatinskoi oblasti na 1898 g. [The memorial book of the Semipalatinsk region for 1898]. Semipalatinsk: [N.s.], 1898 (in Russian).
- Kuznetsov, D.V. “Kolonizatsionnaia i zemleustroitel'naia politika samoderzhaviia v Stepnom krae v kontse XIX - nachale XX v. [Colonization and land management policy of the autocracy in the Steppe region at the end of the XIX - beginning of the XX centuries]. Rossiia mezhdu Vostokom i Zapadom [Russia between East and West], issue 2, 56-71. Omsk: OGI Publ., 2001 (in Russian).
- Lysenko, Yu.A. “Praktiki vzaimodeistviia musul'manskih obshchin Stepnogo kraia s organami gosudarstvennoi vlasti (vtoraia polovina XIX - nachalo XX v.) [Practices of the Interaction of Muslim Communities of the Steppes with the Government (The 2nd Half of the XIX - Early XX Century)].” Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology 23, no. 1 (2024):108-119, https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2024-23-1-108-119 (in Russian).
- Lysenko, Yu.A., Kulikova, M.F. “Sistema mestnogo samoupravleniia v kazakhskoi stepi: ideologiia reform i problemy realizatsii (konets XVIII - seredina XIX v. [The system of local self-government in the Kazakh steppe: the ideology of reforms and implementation problems (late XVIII - mid XIX centuries].” Izvestiya of Altai State University, no 4-1 (2013): 181-188 (in Russian).
- Remnev, A.V., and Savel'ev, P.I. “Aktual'nye problemy izucheniya regional'nykh protsessov v imperskoy Rossii [Current problems of studying regional processes in imperial Russia]. Imperskiy stroy Rossii v regional'nom izmerenii (XIX - nachalo XX veka) [The imperial system of Russia in the regional dimension (XIX - early XX centuries)], 5-18. Moscow: Pervyy pechatnyy Dvor Publ., 1997 (in Russian).
- Shcherbina, F.A. Kirgizskaia narodnost' v mestakh krest'ianskikh pereselenii [Kyrgyz people in the places of peasant resettlement]. St. Petersburg: Obshchestvennaia pol'za Publ., 1905 (in Russian).
- Tarasova, E.V. “Vliianie pereselencheskogo dvizheniia na zemel'nye otnosheniia v Stepnom krae i Turkestane v kontse XIX - nachale XX v. [Influence of Resettlement Movement on the Land Relations in the Steppe Region and Turkestan at the End of the XIX and the Beginning of the XX Century].” Izvestiya of Altai State University, no 4/2 (2013): 203-206. (in Russian), https://doi.org/10.14258/izvasu(2013)4.2-40
- Tursunbaev, A.B. Iz istorii krest'ianskogo pereseleniia v Kazahstan [From the history of peasant resettlement in Kazakhstan]. Alma-Ata: AN KazSSR Publ., 1950 (in Russian).
