Ankara : The Department of International Relations, Bilkent University, 1999.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 1998.Includes bibliographical references leaves and index.This manuscript is a study the political, social, and administrative past of the
Kazaks who became independent at the last decade of this century, shouldering all the
burdens and problems of being a subject people first to the Russian Tsarist order and later
to the Soviet rule. It is a search to find solutions to the present-day problems by focusing
to the historical roots of the matters. This study attempted to focus on issues vital for the
very survival of the Kazaks who are now only a part of the population in the land called
Kazakstan.
The need to launch such a study stemmed from the fact of seeking an answer to
the problem,.s of the present-day Kazakstan. Thus a historical account of the roots of the
issues, such as land, population change, political participation, and dilemma of the native
language were choosen as the topics of the work. Kazak economic and military
dependence to its former center, Moscow, was another dimension of the difficulties, this
new state face in its path towards an independent survival.
Kazak native elite and intellectuals became the symbols of a new nationalist trend
m Kazakstan. Thus short biographies of some fifty most prominent Kazak political,
military, intellectual and administrative elite provided an important contribution. It is
hoped that this work will help to draw the attention of the academic and political world to
one important dimension, reactions of the native part of the society, during the last three
centuries, in the actions, ideas, and activities of the native elite. It is believed that the
future ethnic stability need such a focus if there is going to be a stable social and ethnic
order in Kazakstan. Thus it is an attempt to fill the gap in western literature with the most
needed native account of the facts.Kırımlı, MeryemM.S
