Issues of rehabilitation of victims of political repression in the materials of the National Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Abstract

Questions of the history of political repression are an actual and topical topic, against the background of the activities of the State Commission established by the decision of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan K. Tokayev. The relevance of the topic proposed by the author is undeniable from the point of view of his appeal to the analysis of the stages of formation and the beginning of the rehabilitation process of the period of perestroika, the archival revolution in the USSR. The research objective is to analyze the sources on the history of rehabilitation of victims of political repression identified in the funds of the National Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The archival materials discovered by the author reveal the issues of the formation of the state policy of rehabilitation of victims of political repression at the present stage of development of Kazakhstan, namely the end of the 80s of the twentieth century - the beginning of the XXI century. Special attention is paid to the first stage of rehabilitation, which began in 1988 with the creation of the State Commission for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Repression. The author drew attention to the legal field of activity of the State Commission and to the history of discussion of the draft, adoption and enactment of the Law "On Rehabilitation of victims of mass repression". In general, the article presents various measures during the implementation of the state policy for the rehabilitation of victims of political repression in 20-30 years. Twentieth century. Based on archival data, the author shows the course of rehabilitation of victims of political repression and statistical materials.