Alikhan Bukeikhanov

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Alikhan Bukeikhanov
Әлихан Бөкейхан
Portrait, 1906
Prime Minister of Alash Autonomy
In office
13 December 1917 – 5 March 1920
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byOffice disestablished
Personal details
Born(1866-03-05)5 March 1866
Tokraunskaya Volost, Russian Empire
Died27 September 1937(1937-09-27) (aged 71)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Political partyConstitutional Democratic (1906–1917)
Alash (1917–1920)
Communist (1920–1926)
SpouseYelena Sevostyanova
Alma materOmsk Technical School
Saint Petersburg Forestry Institute
OccupationPolitician, writer, environmental scientist
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Alikhan Nurmukhameduly Bukeikhanov[a] (5 March 1866 – 27 September 1937) was a Kazakh politician and publisher who served as the Chairman (Prime Minister) of the Provisional National Government of Alash Orda and one of the leaders of the Alash party from late 1917 to 1920.[1][2]

Early life

Alikhan Bukeikhanov was born into a

Orta zhuz, he was a direct descendant of Genghis Khan.[3] Bukeikhanov graduated from the Russian-Kazakh School and Omsk Technical School in 1890. He later studied at the Saint Petersburg Forestry Institute, where he graduated from the Faculty of Economics in 1894. During Bukeikhanov's youth, it is believed that he was influenced by socialists
.

Upon graduating, Bukeikhanov returned to

Abay Kunanbayev, publishing an obituary in Semipalatinsky listok in 1905. In 1909, he published a collection of Kunanbayev's works.[5]

Political life

In 1905, Bukeikhanov's political activism began when he joined the

Samara. He was elected to the State Duma of the Russian Empire as a member of that party in 1906 and signed the Vyborg petition to protest the dissolution of the Duma by the tsar. In 1908, he was arrested again and exiled in Samara until 1917. While in Samara, he participated in the Samara Guberniya Committee of the People's Freedom Party set up in 1915. Author of the idea of the First Kazakh Republic
.

Akhmet Baitursynov, Alikhan Bukeikhanov and Mirjaqip Dulatuli in Orenburg
in 1913.
Bukeikhanov among Alash intelligentsia in Semipalatinsk in 1918.

In April 1917, Bukeikhanov,

Alash Orda government of Alash Autonomy
.

In 1920, after the establishment of

Bolshevik party and returned to scientific life. His earlier political activities caused the authorities to view him with suspicion, leading to arrests in 1926 and 1928. In 1926, Bukeikhanov was arrested on the charge of counter-revolutionary activity and put into the Butyrka prison in Moscow. But due to the lack of evidence in the criminal case against him, he was released from prison. In 1930, the authorities banished him to Moscow, where he was arrested a final time in 1937 and executed.[citation needed
]

It was not until 1989 that the Soviet authorities rehabilitated him.[citation needed]

Writings

Bukeikhanov's major political publication was "Kirgizy" ("The Kazakhs") (1910), which was released in the Constitutional Democratic party book on nationalities edited by A. I. Kosteliansky. Bukeikhanov's other activities of this period included assisting in the creation of Qazaq, a Kazakh language newspaper, and writing articles for newspapers, including "Dala Walayatynyng Gazeti" (Omsk), "Orenburgskii Listok", "Semipalatinskii Listok", "Turkestanskie Vedomosti" (Tashkent), "Stepnoi Pioner" (Omsk), and "Sary-Arqa" (Semipalatinsk). He was also a contributor to Ay Qap and "Sibirskie Voprosy".

Explanatory notes

  1. ^ Kazakh: Әлихан Нұрмұхамедұлы Бөкейхан, Arabic graphics: ٴالىيحان نۇرمۇحامەدۇلى بوكەيحان, romanized: Älihan Nūrmūhamedūly Bökeihan, pronunciation: [æləj'χɑn no̙r'mo̙hɑmmjed'o̙ɫə bøkej'χɑn].

References

  1. ISBN 9789231039850
    . Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Памятник лидерам Алаш Орды установили в Нур-Султане". tengrinews.kz. 2021-07-04.
  3. ^ Sultan-Khan Akkuly (December 2014). "Childhood and boyhood of the future leader of the nation: Alikhan was born different" (PDF). e-history.kz. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
  4. ^ Sultan-Khan Akkuly (October 21, 2014). "Alikhan Bokeikhan: prison epopee". e-history.kz. Archived from the original on March 6, 2019. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
  5. ^ Aigul Bidanova (August 21, 2013). "Ethnic Costumes in 1902 Exhibition Came From Abai". The Astana Times. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
  6. ^ Pipes 1997, p. 84.
  7. ^ Pierce 1960, p. 260.
  8. ^ Pipes 1997, p. 85.

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