Topic 1. Kazakhstan at the Beginning of the 20th Century

1.1 Society in colonized Kazakhstan at the beginning of the 20th century

• The social and economic development of Kazakhstan

• The resettlement policy and its impact on Kazakhstan

• Increasing social differentiation and changes to the mono-ethnic population composition in Kazakhstan

1.2 The intensification of political life in Kazakhstan

• Political life in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the 20th century

• The Karkaraly petition of 1905 and its role in the political life of Kazakhstan

1.3 Kazakhstan during the First World War

• The national liberation movement of 1916

• The perspectives of the Kazakh intelligentsia on the national liberation movement