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Articles dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Alash movement

Alash is a socio–political national liberation movement that united Kazakh and Kyrgyz intellectuals. It was created in 1917 by journalist and publicist Alikhan Bukeikhanov, linguist, poet and translator Akhmet Baitursinov and writer Mirzhakip Dulatov. Goals of the movement: self-government of the Kazakh people; the right of the people to create an independent State; restriction of resettlement from the interior of Russia to the Kazakh lands. The movement‘s program: universal suffrage; proportional national representation; a democratic Russian federal republic with a president and a legislative Duma; equality of the constituent republics of Russia; democratic freedoms; separation of Church and State; equality of languages. It was liquidated by the Bolsheviks and ceased to exist in 1920.

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