G. I. ZHELTOVA. HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST CONSTRUCTION OF SOVIET UZBEKISTAN (1930-1970). TASHKENT. "FAN". 1981. 184 P. October 1984 marked the 60th anniversary of the formation of the Uzbek SSR. Understanding the significance of the event, Soviet historians began to prepare for it in advance. Collectively, they produced a considerable number of works designed to show the main stages of the socialist transformation of the national economy of the republic, the laws and specifics of its development, first under the dictatorship of the proletariat, and then within the framework of the national state. The importance and relevance of creating this kind of literature is all the greater because intensive work is currently underway on a new edition of the CPSU Program, which should summarize the historical experience of building mature socialism in the USSR and show it as an integral result of the conscious creativity of all the peoples of our multinational country. Under these conditions, the publication of historiographical studies that deepen and concretize the existing ideas about the ascent of Soviet society to its current heights, as well as about the development of historical science itself, which covers this pioneering feat, is of particular interest. The category of such studies includes with good reason the new monograph of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor G. I. Zheltova (Tashkent Pedagogical Institute), which logically continues the previous book of the author, which analyzes similar literature devoted to the socialist transformations in the UZSSR in the period of the 20-30s1 . This time, the author focuses not only on the key problems of the transition period, when there was a struggle to build the foundations of socialism, to transform NEP Russia into a socialist Russia, but also carefully examines the works of social scientists describing the subsequent course of socialist construction in Uzbekistan. The monograph mainly analyzes wor ... Читать далее