Kazakh Poet Research Articles

Some Problems of Cultural Education in Kazakhstan

The given problem existing in Kazakhstan from long time has been intensified with collapse of the Soviet Union. Kazakh people have felt accruing need of self--identification in new socio--historical and geopolitical conditions. It was especially important with respect to interrelations and interaction of Kazakh people with Islamic, Turkic and Western world. The youth of Kazakhstan especially needed and needs in the light of enormous and amplifying ideological influence from the outside “binding” to own ideals, values and forms of spirituality of Kazakh people, its historically implanted traditions, customs, wisdom of daily life. In question solution a special role is played by education and self--education of youth and, in particular, religious Islamic education. Merits of the outstanding Kazakh poet and educator Abai Kunanbayev in propagation of studying of Russian language and familiarizing through it to the European culture are widely known to the public. At the same time, its follower and relative Shakarim Kudaiberdiev had underlined the importance of traditional belief of Kazakhs-Islam in self-identification and spiritually moral self-standing and nation developments.

"Self" and "Other" İmages in Kazakh Poet Mağcan Cumabayev's Poems

"Self" and "Other" İmages in Kazakh Poet Mağcan Cumabayev's Poems

The Concept of Love in Classicial Kazakh Poet Şakarim (Şahkerim) Kudayberdiulı's Poems

The Concept of Love in Classicial Kazakh Poet Şakarim (Şahkerim) Kudayberdiulı's Poems

Dissent among Non-Russian Writers of the U.S.S.R. – A Philologist's Analysis

On December 21, 1972, the Soviet Union celebrated what was called in the official press the “50th Anniversary” of the birth of the multinational Soviet state. Brezhnev spoke at the festive meeting and in his speech he underlined the unity, mutual understanding and independence of the people who make up the Soviet Union. As a demonstration of the equality of all nations within Soviet boundaries, leading Soviet literary periodicals, such as Novyi Mir, or Yunost' published more and more authors with non-Russian names. Indeed, these periodicals began to look like a Soviet Reader's Digest, publishing a “little bit from everywhere for everybody.” On the surface it was multinational literature all right, but upon a closer reading one was surprised by the uniformity of it. The Kazakh poet sang of the heroes of the Second World War in the same terms as the Lithuanian writer, and the Tadzhik kolkhoz life was depicted in the same glowing terms as in the poems from the Moldavian countryside. A little bit boring, perhaps, but still, judging by these publications, Brezhnev was telling the pure truth talking about the brotherly union of “our multinational” state. The press was also inundated with articles, essays, poems, etc. on this theme.