Publications of Russian Newspapers and Magazines of the Second Half of the 19th – Early 20th Century as a Source on the History of the Kazakh National Liberation Movement

Abstract

The article provides an overview of newspaper and magazine publications of the second half of the 19th - early 20th century on the problem of the Kazakh national liberation movement. The participation of Kazakhs in the Pugachev uprising, the uprisings of I. Kutebarov, I. Taimanov, K. Kasymov, protests against the introduction of tsarist reforms on the territory of Kazakhstan and others are presented in the materials. The authors of latter are Russian officials, the military and others. Their value lies in the coverage of events, based on documents were discovered by the authors or written from eyewitnesses.