Отан тарихы

     The aim of the research:

1. revealing the essence and peculiarities of intellectual potential and ethno– cultural life in Kazakhstani auls and villages from 1946 to 1991 in its historical dynamics;
2. the study of interconnections and determining the sources of intellectual potential and ethno-cultural development;
3. the research of the subjects’ social image;
4. pointing out the ways of formation and stages of the development, defining the places, meaning and results of intellectual potential in the agricultural-economical area.

Methodology of research is based on the principles of historical and scientific objectivity; systematization; and acknowledgement of pluralism aimed at the solution of problematic scientific and applied socio-economic questions examined in the research. Social dialectics is wholly used as the methodology for the objective and systematic study of the social sphere. Historic-genetic, chronological, comparative and statistical methods were also used. 

 Practical scientific value of the research is found in the solution of a great scientific issue which has clear social and political value in intellectual potential studies and ethno-cultural development in the agro-economical development of Kazakhstan during the post-war period.

 Conclusions and recommendations of the thesis suggest application of the findings of this research by central and local governments as well as socio-political organizations. Materials and results of the research may be very useful on the lectures in the modern history of Kazakhstan as well as in special training courses on agrarian problems, and editing methodological manuals.

     The degree of introduction

The basic regulations of the thesis found reflection in more than 30 works published in scientific publications of the Republic, and in the materials of national and international scientific-practical conferences dedicated to the problems of native history.