FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THE DECREE OF JUNE 25, 1916

Abstract

The proclamation of the tsarist decree, which provoked the national liberation uprising in Kazakhstan in 1916, was discussed for many years among the highest authorities. It was first launched in 1910, before the First World War, and several times during the First World War., In the Council of Ministers, in the State Duma, in the State Councils. In the discussions, the military tax was finally introduced in 1915, saying, "In what form do we call the colonized peoples of the empire, who were exempted from military service, or replace them with a military tax?" The failures of the first two years of World War I, the high human cost, and the need for manpower to replace those on the front called for more manpower. The issue of conscription was once again on the agenda. forced. The Ministry of Defense had to revive the requisition. The issue has been repeatedly postponed by the authorities because of "political distrust" of the "whirlwind" peoples and the reluctance to hand over weapons. Even the November 1915 bill of the Ministry of Defense was rejected by the Council of Ministers in December this year. Finally, in the summer of 1916, when the situation on the front became more complicated, in May and June, the Prime Minister, the Minister of War and the Deputy Minister of the Interior had to make a joint decision. Records kept in a special journal of the Council of Ministers contain detailed information that the decision to hire was made by Prime Minister Sturmer, Minister of Defense Shuvaev, and Deputy Interior Minister Kukol-Yasnopolsky. This was not a new law, but a collection of military decrees on the former "requisition". The meetings also discussed the need to gather information from the regions on the views of local residents on this call. Representatives of the colonial authorities immediately began to implement the Decree.