THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE'S COLONIAL POLICY IN KAZAKH LANDS (LATE 19th -EARLY 20th CENTURY)

Published 2025-06-30
HISTORY Vol. 80 No. 2 (2025)
Том 80 №2 (2025)
Authors:
  • GANIBAYEVA ZH.A.
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Russian Empire’s policy of resettlement on Kazakh lands had a significant impact on the socio-economic, ethno-demographic and political structure of the Kazakh steppe. The mass resettlement of peasants was aimed at developing Kazakh lands, strengthening colonial control and turning the settlers into a political and social support for integrating the Kazakh territory into the empire. The most fertile, rich and vast lands of the Kazakhs were given to use by the settlers. The increase in the flow of immigrants at the beginning of the 20th century damaged the the Kazakhs' traditional stock-raising. Relocation has been particularly intensive since the establishment of resettlement institutions - a process that has reached unprecedented proportions. The article discusses laws and regulations on resettlement of peasants, causes and course of resettlement movement, organization of resettlement sites, as well as «new direction» in the resettlement policy at the beginning of 20th century and its consequences. The mass displacement of peasants has led to a reduction in the Kazakh’s grazing land and to the expropriation of their lands, which in turn has caused land disputes and conflicts between ancestral and rural communities. In addition, the Kazakh’s lack of land has forced to move from nomadic herding to sedentary farming. The resettlement policy has led to the detriment of national and socio-economic interests of the Kazakh people.

GANIBAYEVA ZH.A.

Candidate of  historical  sciences, senior teacher, K. Zhubanov Aktobe Regional University, Aktobe, Kazakhstan

E-mail: sangar98@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5445-5815 

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resettlement movement, removal of "excess land", intersurvey work, creation of resettlement sites, intensive resettlement, self-resettlers

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THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE’S COLONIAL POLICY IN KAZAKH LANDS (LATE 19th -EARLY 20th CENTURY). (2025). Scientific Journal "Bulletin of the K. Zhubanov Aktobe Regional University", 80(2), 344-352. https://doi.org/10.70239/

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