Moscow, Nauka Publishing House. 1974. 572 pp. Circulation of 2,400 copies. Price 2 rubles 49 kopecks. The work of the Deputy chairman of the Bashkir branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences R. G. Kuzeev was carried out in historical and ethnographic terms, in a wide historical range, based on the integrated use of various types of sources. Among them, a large role belongs to both field materials and research.- page 153 materials of the Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Bashkir branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, accumulated and implemented with the participation of R. G. Kuzeev. Special attention should be paid to the use of data on shezhere and tribal ethnonymy, which, unfortunately, are sometimes not only underestimated, but also undeservedly ignored. Shezhere (genealogies) of Bashkirs, as defined by R. G. Kuzeev, are original written monuments of the XVI - XIX centuries, and sometimes earlier. But there are also oral shezhere both among Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Turkmens, Kirghizs and other peoples .1 Kin-tribal ethnonymy of the Bashkirs is widely used in the book to clarify the ethnic composition of the Bashkirs in different periods of their ethnic history, their ethnogenetic relationships. The stability of ancestral and tribal ethnonyms, their preservation in the memory of the older generation of many modern peoples who conducted a nomadic or semi-nomadic economy in the recent past, place them in a number of outstanding historical and ethnographic sources, the reliability of which is usually confirmed by relevant comparative material and data from multilingual written sources of various antiquities. This type of source is used fruitfully by many Soviet researchers .2 The author expresses new ideas about Bashkir ethnonymy, which reflects popular ideas about its ethnic and social history. He believes that the ethnic history of the Bashkirs, which goes back to the distant past, reflects tribal ethnonyms, and gene ... Читать далее