XXX Международный конгресс ИИСАА. 19–21 июня 2019 г. Т. 1

Источниковедение и историография центральной Азии к 150-летию академика В. В. Бартольда (1869–1930). Ч. 1 257 published more than 100 years ago, thus they are not readily available to Russian and international scholars; partly due to the loss of documentation for the artifacts, which reduced their academic value to a minimum. The search for the homeland led Count Zichy to the territory of the Russian Empire, however, now his expeditions themselves must become the object of research for Russian scholars, because they provide unique data about Russia and its culture, seen with the eyes of the Hungarian researchers. Anton Ikhsanov (HSE, St Petersburg) The personal relations factor within the Cultural Revolution in Central Asia during the 1920–1930s The study of early 20th century Central Eurasian history is crucial for a deeper understanding of State formation processes within the region. It was a period of the National delimitation within the region and the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution is a phenomenon rooted in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. It aimed at the eradication of endemic illiteracy and the transformation of cultural and academic institutions within the borders of the USSR. This process includes numerous representatives of different social and academic layers: from “in-field” informants to the Leningrad Academia and from the local intellectuals to the workers of the former colonial administration of the Russian Empire. Frequently, the analysis of this phenomenon is based on the description of institutional interaction, the position of the local intellectual elite within the republics or the definition of the reform in the Bolshevik ideology and its evolution. In her monograph “Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan” Bottakoz Kassymbekova stated that self-censorship and personal relations are the key elements of the Soviet regime in Central Asia. This analytic approach seems to be fruitful for the description of the so-called “organized chaos” in the region during the first years of the Soviet power. I suggest exploring the interaction of different groups within the reform process. There is no possibility of observing these through official documents. Thus, attention towards ego-documents is an important element of modern-day analytics. The ego-documents pertaining to the main actors are important in order to determine their attitude towards these processes. Diaries, correspondence, and draft papers represent an alternative view, especially within the specific political atmosphere of the Early Soviet period, when academic discussions were only partly represented within official documents. This paper aims at studying the activity of two Turkologists; Alexander Samoilovich andAlexander Potseluevskiy, who were actively involved in the process of the language reform in the Turkmen SSR (1920’s–1930’s). The role of their cooperation with local intellectuals within the framework of the reform has been