Мусульманский вопрос в Степном крае в освящении газет «Казак» и «Колокол» (1913–1914 гг.)

Abstract

The relevance of the issue under study is due to the interest in the problem of the confessional policy of the Russian state in the eastern outskirts of the empire. The article is aimed at revealing the positions of the liberal Tatar and Kazakh intelligentsia in defending ethno-confessional interests on the eve of the First World War. The theoretical and methodological basis of the article were the conceptual provisions of academic research in the field of state-confessional relations in the Asian outskirts of the Russian Empire. The author applied the historical-systemic method that allows to consider the problem under study in chronological and systemic relationships with ethnic, confessional and political chal-lenges faced by the Turkic peoples in the early twentieth century. The study made it possible to identify ways to solve the ethno-confessional problems of the Tatars and the Kazakhs proposed by the Russian state officials, as well as by the Muslim intelligentsia of the Turkic-Muslim peoples during the prepara-tion and work of the 4th Muslim Congress held from July 15 to July 25, 1914 in St. Petersburg.