Almaty: Print-S LLP, 2009. 1263 p. Kokand historiography has been studied for a long time. A special contribution to its study was made by the author of the book under review - Timur Kasymovich Beisembiev (he gives a list of his works on the topic (45 articles and books) on pages 1033-1036). The monograph is actually a concentrated and enriched result of the researcher's previous works (according to the author, "the fruit of 26 years of research", p. 65). The main part of the book consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, the author described the history of the study of Kokand historiography, gave a brief overview of the chronicles, their classification, offered his observations on the internal relationship of the works of the Khanate period (of course, mainly Kokand authors) and attempted to determine the place of the Kokand chronicles in the historiographical tradition of the East, unfortunately, without extensive comparisons. T. K. Beisembiev's analysis of "external" and "internal" (mutual) compilations in the works of Kokand historiographers is interesting. In other words, the author identified blocks in his works that were borrowed from earlier authors and, in fact, from "his" Kokand historians. The analysis is accompanied by detailed tables, which allowed the author to draw general conclusions about compilation methods. In the second chapter, the author provides an overview of the socio-economic, partly political and ethnic history of Kokand, also slightly expanding the material and facts published in his previous works. Intriguingly named is the third paragraph of this chapter - "Ideology", which is a rather superficial study of the ways and sources of legitimizing the power of the Ming. More precisely, this chapter deals with the ideology of political legitimation, which the author cites from his previous works, excluding only conclusions drawn in the style of the Soviet historical school. Nevertheless, it is useful for modern researchers that this c ... Читать далее