Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic

Kazak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic
Казакская Автономная Социалистическая Советская Республика (Russian)
Qazaq Aptonom Sotsijalijstik Sobettik Respuvblijkasь  (Kazakh)
Autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR

1925–1936
Capital Kyzylorda (1925-1929)
Alma-Ata (1929-1936)
Government One-Party Stalinist Dictatorship
First SecretaryFilipp Goloshchekin
History
  Established 1925
  Disestablished 1936
Today part of  Kazakhstan
 Russia
 Turkmenistan
 Uzbekistan

The Kazak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic[1] (Russian: Казакская Автономная Социалистическая Советская Республика; Kazakh: Qazaq Aptonom Sotsijalijstik Sobettik Respuvblijkasь), abbreviated as Kazak ASSR (Russian: Казакская АССР; Kazakh: Qazaq ASSR) and simply Kazakhstan (Russian: Казахстан; Kazakh: Qazaqstan), was an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) existing from 1925 until 1936.

Until February 1936, the official name was Kazak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic (Russian: Казахская Автономная Социалистическая Советская Республика), abbreviated as Kazakh ASSR (Russian: Казахская АССР) and simply Kazakhstan (Russian: Казахстан).

History

The Kazakh ASSR was originally created as the Kirghiz ASSR (not to be confused with Kirghiz ASSR of 1926–1936, a Central Asian territory which is now the independent state of Kyrgyzstan) on 26 August 1920, and was a part of the RSFSR. Before the Russian Revolution, Kazakhs in Russia were known as "Kirghiz-Kazaks" or simply "Kirghiz" (and the Kyrgyzes as "Kara-Kirghiz").[2] This practice continued into the early Soviet period, and thus the Kirghiz ASSR was a national republic for Kazakhs. However, on 15–19 June 1925 the Fifth Kazakh Council of Soviets decided to rename the republic the Kazak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic. The capital of the former Kirghiz ASSR, Ak-Mechet, was retained as the seat of the Kazak ASSR but was renamed Kzyl-Orda, from the Kazakh "red centre".[1] In 1927[1] or 1929[3][lower-alpha 1] the city of Alma-Ata was designated as the new capital of the ASSR. In February 1930, there was an anti-Soviet insurgency in the village of Sozak.[4] On 5 December 1936, the ASSR was detached from the RSFSR and made the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, a full union republic of the Soviet Union.[1]

Geography

The Kazak ASSR that succeeded the recently expanded Kirghiz ASSR included all of the territory making up the present-day Republic of Kazakhstan plus parts of Uzbekistan (the Karakalpak Autonomous Oblast), Turkmenistan (the north shore of Kara-Bogaz-Gol) and Russia (parts of what would become Orenburg Oblast). These territories were transferred from the Kazak ASSR over the following decade.

The administrative subdivisions of the ASSR changed several times in its history. In 1928 the guberniyas, administrative districts inherited from the Kirghiz ASSR were eliminated and replaced with 13 okrugs and raions. In 1932, the republic was divided into six new larger oblasts. These included:

On 31 January 1935, yet another territorial division was implemented which included the six oblasts listed above plus a new Karkaralinsk okrug.[5]

Notes

  1. Sources differ on the year.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Grigol Ubiria. Soviet Nation-Building in Central Asia: The Making of the Kazakh and Uzbek Nations. Routledge, 2015. p. 124. ISBN 9781317504351
  2. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica: "Kirghiz" (scanned version)
  3. Vladimir Babak, et al., eds. Political Organization in Central Asia and Azerbijan: Sources and Documents. Routledge, 2004. p. 90. ISBN 9781135776817
  4. Niccolò Pianciola; Paolo Sartori (2013). "Interpreting an insurgency in Soviet Kazakhstan: The OGPU, Islam and Qazaq 'Clans' in Suzak, 1930". Islam, Society and States Across the Qazaq Steppe: 297–340.
  5. Постановление ВЦИК от 31.01.1935 «О новом административно-территориальном делении Казакской АССР». (in Russian)

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