Абай атындағы ҚазҰПУ-нің ХАБАРШЫСЫ, «Тарих және саяси-әлеуметтік ғылымдар» сериясы, №1(72), 2022 ж. 150
The history of the confiscation of the Bai households was most fully and adequately reflected in the protocol
records. Based on the examples of documents of the meetings of the Council of People’s Commissars of the
KazASSR, it can be stated that direct and indirect factual data contained in their protocols allow us to trace the
entire prehistory and history of the decree appearance on the confiscation of Bai households.
A major and extraordinary event in this direction was the decree of the KazCEC and the KazSovnarkom “On
the confiscation of Bai households”, which was adopted at a joint meeting of the CEC and the Council of People’s
Commissars of the KazASSR on August 27, 1928. In order to put this decree into effect, on August 30, 1928, at a
meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars, “Instructions for the application of the decree of the Central
Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of the KazASSR on the confiscation of Bai
households” was approved and published. This instruction regulated in detail the organizational measures and
functions of the structural subdivisions of the government, carrying out the confiscation and eviction of the bais.
However, during the study of this topic, many complaints and statements of innocent victims were found in the
archival materials with requests to reconsider the decision of the authorities, to cancel the orders on confiscation
and eviction. In particular, this is evidenced by the complaint of Abdrakhman Bikturganov, a citizen of the aul No.
5 of the Keles district of the Syrdarya region, sent to the Council of People’s Commissars of the KASSR
addressed to N. Nurmakov dated September 20, 1928 [12]. Complaints reflect not only the confiscation process
itself, but also, that is especially important, give an idea of the identity of the evicted person and his families,
information about the size and structure of the confiscated economy.
On February 1, 1930, the policy of liquidating the kulaks as a class was legislatively formalized in the decree
of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR “On measures to
strengthen the socialist reorganization of agriculture in areas of complete collectivization and to combat the
kulaks”, which officially granted the right to the district, regional executive committees and the government of
autonomous republics “to apply in areas of complete collectivization all the necessary measures to combat the
kulaks, up to the complete confiscation of the kulaks’ property and their eviction outside certain regions and
territories”.
The resources fund also contains the materials of the meeting of the republican commission on the
resettlement of kulaks, where regional troikas made up lists of names subject to dispossession of he kulaks. The
lists compiled by the troika reflected the following data: surname, name, patronymic and age of the head of the
family, place of residence, social and property status, indicating the amount of taxes for two years. Sources
contained in the fund of the Council of People’s Commissars show that the purpose of the tax policy was not only
dispossession of kulak farms, but also the elimination of individual farms.
The next group of documents is the sources on the consequences of forced collectivization in Kazakhstan.
Based on the sources analysis of organizational, administrative and reporting nature, we examined the progress of
land management work and the resettlement policy of the Soviet government in Kazakhstan.
In particular, on October 17, 1924, the Labor and Defense Council adopted a resolution “On the Immediate
Tasks of Colonization and Resettlement”, which formulated the main provisions of the resettlement policy of the
Soviet government and identified the areas of “priority land development” [13]. According to the sources, the
policy of the Kazakhstan territory development, which initially had a spontaneous character and only then turned
into systematic work, determined the entire course of land management work in the future. The fact that the
resettlement policy began to be of a planned nature is evidenced by the planning documentation collected in the
fund. At the same time, it was found that resettlement plans were included in the five-year plans for the
development of the national economy.
The issue of settling the nomadic and semi-nomadic population was widely discussed at the II session of the
KazCEC, held in early 1930. In the resolution “On the ways of settling the Kazakh population”, which was
adopted at this session, the main measures were determined to transfer the Kazakh population to a settled lifestyle.
The “Regulations on the Committee for the Settlement of the nomadic and semi-nomadic Kazakh population”
was approved at the meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars of the KazASSR dated February 13, 1930.
The regulation consisted of 11 points, which determined the competence and structure of the settling committee.
According to the minutes of the meetings of the Council of People’s Commissars, the issues of the settlement
committee were often brought up for its hearing and discussed, as a result of which concrete measures were taken
to develop and consolidate the settlement.
By adopting the resolution “Issues of the Settlement Committee under the CPC”, which was adopted on May
6, 1931, the Council of People’s Commissars of the KazASSR granted this Committee the rights of the decision-
making body of the CPC KASSR in relation to all the People’s Commissars, regional organizations and
institutions on settling issues. However, the process of transferring people to a settled lifestyle was complicated by