Report “on the military warfare of the task group in kazakhstan in march, april and may 1930"as a historical source

Abstract

The article analyzes the "Report on the military warfare of the task group in Kazakhstan in March, April and May 1930" which has been deposited in the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (APRK). The document refers to the middle of 1930 and directly relates to the events that took place in the Kustanai and Kyzylorda districts of Kazakhstan - the armed uprisings of the Kazakh sharua (peasants) against the policy of agricultural campaigns and forced collectivization. The goals and objectives of the study include, first of all, understanding the significance of the source chosen by the author for enriching ideas about the processes and phenomena that took place in Soviet Kazakhstan in the late 1920s and early 1930s. In addition, the conditions for generating the "Report ..." are identified, which characterizes the cause-and-effect relationships of the emergence and development of armed uprisings on the territory of the Kustanai and Kyzyl-Orda districts. The source materials demonstrate the level of knowledge of its authors about the background of the events and their orientation allowing a comprehensive and objective assessment and determination of the activities of specific units and subdivisions of the Red Army, divisions of the VOGPU, their place and role in suppressing armed uprisings on the territory of the Kustanai and Kzyl-Orda districts.