НЕКОТОРЫЕ АСПЕКТЫ ВОПРОСОВ ЯЗЫКОВОЙ ПОЛИТИКИ В ПОСЛЕВОЕННОЕ ВРЕМЯ И ПОЗИЦИЯ РУКОВОДСТВА КАЗАХСКОЙ ССР

Abstract

The article aims to consider the position of the leadership of the Kazakh SSR - Zh. Shayakhmetov - in relation to language discussions among Kazakh linguists in post-war Kazakhstan against the background of the introduction of the Stalinist concept of linguistic uniformity. The problems of linguistics in the USSR as a multi-ethnic geocultural education were an integral part of state-building for the formation of the imperial space and the construction of Soviet identity. In the Kazakh SSR since the beginning of the 1920s, linguistic problems have become a field of struggle between adherents of preserving linguistic originality and preserving the linguistic baggage of the past (Arabism, Persiisms, and terminology of nomadic traditional society) and Sovietization of the language through the introduction of Rusisms and linguistic ideologies. The latter won in the confrontation with the «nationalists» by the end of the 1930s. However, the alphabet wars of the late 1930s moved to the level of confrontation in terms of disputes about the content of the Kazakh language since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War since they were closely linked to a new stage of the construction of the Kazakh Soviet identity. In the post-war years, the language discussions in the Kazakh SSR, initiated by I. V. Stalin, were aimed at leveling the differences in the language and further Russification of it. The leadership of Kazakhstan (Zh. Shayakhmetov) reduced the disputes among linguists and writers to the change of thematic and textual content, but not the rejection of the Kazakh language as a means of communication, intergenerational communication and the formation of ethnic identity.