Frunze. Ilim Publishing House, 1967, 327 p. The print run is 1500. Price 1 rub. 47 kopecks. The uprising of 1916 is one of the brightest pages in the history of the peoples of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, being the largest and most mass movement in the history of Kyrgyzstan before the Great October Socialist Revolution. Many articles and pamphlets were written about it; in 1962, Kh. T. Tursunov published a monograph on the 1916 movement as a whole .1 However, until recently, there was no special study that comprehensively examined the struggle of the Kyrgyz people against the double oppression of baimanapism and tsarism in 1916. This gap is filled by K. U. Usenbaev's monograph. The author shows the degree of elaboration of various aspects of the problem he considers, noting both the advantages and disadvantages of the works of his predecessors. He made extensive use of archival documents, statistics, literary sources, memoirs, folklore, and other materials. When working on the book, we first drew on the memories of active participants and eyewitnesses of the events. All this allowed K. U. Usenbayev to reveal the social and political motives and economic reasons of the movement, to recreate its true history. As is known, earlier studies made mistakes and inaccuracies in assessing the Kyrgyz uprising in 1916.2One of the reasons for this was that the historical context in which the movement originated and took place had not previously been given sufficient attention. In contrast to these works, K. U. Usenbaev's book thoroughly describes the economic, political and social background of the uprising, and carefully analyzes the role of individual classes and social groups in it. The author showed that the situation of the working masses of the indigenous population worsened, social contradictions worsened. Special attention is paid to the penetration of Marxist-Leninist ideas into areas inhabited by Kyrgyz, the awakening of workers ' self-consciousness, friendly relations ... Читать далее