Problems in the studyof Turkic cooperation in thefirsthalfofthe20thcenturyintheframeworkofnationalautonomies

Abstract

The first half of the twentieth century was a period of significant political and socialchangefortheTurkic-Muslimpeoples.Aftertherevolutionarychanges,TurkicMuslimpeopleswere able to maintain their identity despite the new Bolshevik colonial policy of the RussianEmpire. As a result, national autonomies started to be established, which led to a process ofintegration of Turkic Muslim peoples. Their ideological views were influenced by the Jadids,who were educated in the madrasas of Bukhara, Samarkand, Kazan, Istanbul, and Cairo.DuringtheirstayinIstanbultheycameintocontactwiththeYoungTurksandwereinfluencedby new ideas, which became the basis of cooperation of Turkic peoples at the stage of creation ofnational autonomies. Thus in the given article the aim of complex analysis of Turkic peoples’cooperation within the framework of national autonomies in the first half of XX century (Itil-Ural, Alash Orda, Turkestan, Shuro-i-Islamia) on the basis of the archival data of the RussianFederation and the Central State Archive of the Republic of Uzbekistan is set. In order to reachthisgoalbymeansofdiscourse-analysismethodandhistorical-comparativeresearchmethodthe author tries to shed light on the historical process of Turkic-Muslim peoples integration inRussian Empire.