Özet:

Political structures that emerged after great multinational associations seek to find their lost histories in the distant past for the legitimacy of their unique nations. The magnificent pre-colonial sovereignty narrative that will be revealed as a result of this initiative, besides nation building, also creates a motivation element for the solution of current problems and the realization of future expectations. In this operation, history is reduced to a national reinforcement rather than a field of knowledge. Historiography, which acquires a political mission with this pragmatic functionality, takes on an instrumental character in order to search for the roots of art in the past. After the historical function and mission of the Soviet Union ended, the member republics of the Union successively declared their independence. For the legitimacy of these political independences, which rose on the basis of the nation-state, first of all, it was necessary to eliminate colonial influences. For this purpose, the action was taken for the construction/invention process of nations in the decolonization process. The republics found themselves in an effort to create a unique nation, sometimes on the basis of a nominal ethnicity and sometimes on the basis of citizenship. In this construction, a lot of meaning has been attributed to history, which is the main determinant of the post-colonial nation construction, both inside and outside. Under these conditions, historiography in the post-Soviet era - as in the Soviet period - turned into a political apparatus. Although the newborn republics tried to get rid of the colonial mentality practices in the post-Soviet nation-building process, each of them had challenges moving away from the orbit of territorial thinking due to their own internal dynamics. This was also partly related to the political choices that republics preferred in the face of cyclical situations. Each republic, according to its own special situation, made the history of the nation or the history of the country the subject of research and highlighted it. This reference also determined the limits of historiography. While the components of the Kazakh nation are consistently accepted as historical subjects by going beyond the territorial borders in Kazakhstan, some reservations in Uzbekistan caused the continuation of the Soviet-like nationalization policies. In Tajikistan, the search for a lost nation, which started with an expansionist attitude, resulted in a traumatic identity crisis and drift.

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