Stalinist repressions in the periodical press (based on the materials of the periodical press of the 20-30s of the XX century)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the actions of Soviet ideology to turn the periodical press into a tool of propaganda of the Communist Party and the campaign of Stalinist repression. “Enbekshi-Kazakh” (later “Social-Kazakhstan”, “Socialist Kazakhstan”), “Kzyl Kazakhstan”, provincial “Ak Zhol”, “Kazakh Tili» and other publications, which became organs of the party and government in the 20-30s of the twentieth century, were supposed to exalt the triumph of socialism, to glorify the achievements of the new Soviet life. The authors define the position of the government in relation to the periodical press published under the Soviet system and use examples to reveal the process of exposing the intelligentsia and citizens of the country who worked in various fields. Through the periodical press, it is clarified how the course of the struggle against elements alien to the Bolshevik system. The authors analyze the course of political repression of the Kazakh intelligentsia as a "bourgeois nationalist", "right deviants" in the 1920s. In the 1930s, the newspapers reflected the progress of the purge of enemy elements that had joined the ranks of the Communist Party. The article analyzes a role and place of the press in identifying "enemies of the people" in the districts of the Aktobe region. It reveals a trial process for identifying enemies in the fields of education, culture, art, agriculture of the Wilsky, Temir, Presnovsky districts.