Alash Autonomy


Alash Autonomy was a Kazakh state that existed between 1917 and 1920, on approximately the territory of the present-day Republic of Kazakhstan. The capital city was Semey, then known as "Alash-qala".
Named for the mythical Alash, from whom the three Kazakh tribal confederations claimed to descend, the Alash Autonomy was the first independent Kazakh state to exist since the annexation of the Kazakh Khanate by the Russian Empire in 1848. The state was proclaimed during the Second All-Kazakh Congress held at Orenburg from 5-13 December 1917 OS, with a provisional government being established under the oversight of Alikhan Bukeikhanov. However, the nation's purported territory was still under the de facto control of the region's Russian-appointed governor, Vasile Balabanov, until 1919. In 1920, he fled the Russian Red Army for self-imposed exile in China, where he was recognized by the Chinese as Kazakhstan's legitimate ruler.
Following its proclamation in December 1917, Alash leaders established the Alash Orda, a Kazakh government which was aligned with the White Army and fought against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. In 1919, when the White forces were losing, the Alash Autonomous government began negotiations with the Bolsheviks. By 1920, the Bolsheviks had defeated the White Russian forces in the region and occupied Kazakhstan. On August 26, 1920, the Soviet government established the Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which in 1925 changed its name to Kazak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and finally to Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic in 1936.

Government

Alash Orda was the name of the provisional Kazakh government from 13 December 1917 to 1918. This provisional government consisted of twenty-five members: ten positions reserved for non-Kazakhs and fifteen for ethnic Kazakhs. During their rule, the Alash Orda formed a special educational commission and established militia regiments as their armed forces. They issued a number of legislative resolutions; the first one, issued 11–24 June 1918, "agreed to invalidate all decrees issued by the Soviet authorities on the territory of the autonomous Alash."
Alongside the authority of the Alash Orda, there sprang up independent Bolshevik councils which opposed the body's rule and aligned themselves with Vladimir Lenin in the brewing Russian Civil War. By 1919, the legitimate government of the Alash Autonomy had been effectively dismantled by Soviet force, its territory being integrated into the nascent Soviet Union. On 26 August 1920, the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed by Lenin and Mikhail Kalinin; this would eventually become the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and would remain the functioning authority in the region until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the late-1980s.

Films

  1. 1994 «Алаш туралы сөз» "The Word of Alash" "Алаш туралы сөз" - "Алаш туралы сөз" «Kazakhtelefilm» film director Kalila Umarov.
  2. 2009 «Алашорда» "Alashorda" "Алашорда" - "Алашорда" «Kazakhfilm» film director Kalila Umarov.
  3. 2018 " Тар заман "- Tar zaman " Strait time" by Kazakhstan national channel- Қазақстан ұлттық арнасы