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Current article will be focused to Hungarian researchers’ study on the history and culture of Central Asia and Kazakhstan. The purpose of this article is to analyze the main scientific directions of Hungarian researchers who conducted their scientific investigation in Central Asia and Kazakhstan in various chronological periods, which allows to highlight and to trace the continuity of Hungarian scientist’s generation in the named fields of the region. This study uses interviews and survey methods as one of up-to-date research method to inquire. On the framework a qualitative type of research, a sampling method based on the open-ended questions used on creating the interview points. As the consequence, the generations of Hungarian scientists who conducted research expeditions in Central Asia and Kazakhstan were analyzed; interviews collected from modern Hungarian scientists who are currently managing research in this region; determined their scientific directions, topics and research objectives as well. Dates from this study can be used in the field of historiography, history, Turkology etc.

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Current research will be focused to Hungarian researchers’ study on the history and culture of Central Asia and Kazakhstan.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the main scientific directions of Hungarian researchers who conducted their scientific investigation in Central Asia and Kazakhstan in various chronological periods, which allows to highlight and to trace the continuity of Hungarian scientist’s generation in the named fields of the region.

This study uses interviews and survey methods as one of up-to-date research method to inquire. On the framework a qualitative type of research, a sampling method based on the open-ended questions used on creating the interview points.

As the consequence, the generations of Hungarian scientists who conducted research expeditions in Central Asia and Kazakhstan were analyzed; interviews collected from modern Hungarian scientists who are currently managing research in this region; determined their scientific directions, topics and research objectives as well.

Dates from this study can be used in the field of historiography, history, Turkology etc.

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Contemporary history textbooks in high schools of Kazakhstan have been widely adopted as “national identity” reinforcement tools through reshaping or reconstructing the so-called “socialist” notion of the state to more “ethnic nationalist”. This shift caused a confusing dilemma for the authors of the textbooks to accommodate both the national “Kazakh” ethnonym and “others”. The problem of representation of ethnic minority groups is receiving considerable attention with the development of the educational system of Kazakhstan and its impact on the new civic identity. This paper aims to explore portrayals of various ethnic minorities (such as Russians, Uzbeks, Koreans, etc.) in the secondary-level history textbooks published in the 2010s for 9th-11th grades. The focus of the research is directed toward three main historical periods - Kazakhstan as a part of late Imperial Russia, Kazakhstan in the USSR, and the Independent period. The content analysis method was applied to thoroughly consider those periods from the perspective of ethnic minorities. It is argued that the concept of cultural and ethnic diversity in the textbook materials is highly dependent on the government doctrines and ideologies that underlie such representations. The findings reveal that the verbal representation of certain ethnic groups is not elaboratively centralized and there are almost no distinguished boundaries between the use of terminology such as majority (non-minority) and minority. We conclude that the textual representation of ethnic minorities is highly limited to certain themes and topics within the historical context and there is a substantial lack of multicultural/multilingual context relevant to the diverse population of the state. This article also reveals the emerging need to provide more inclusive, post-colonial approaches of multi-ethnic historical perspective rather than the ideological ethnocentric narrative of the national past.

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This article investigates the transformation of the official historcal narrative of the Golden Horde in Kazakhstan, tracing a significant shift from Nazarbayev to Tokayev's presidencies. The narrative of the Golden Horde became a strategic component of the second president Tokayev, who announced the commemoration of 750 years of the Horde foundation in Kazakhstan and proclaimed that it laid the foundations for Kazakh statehood. The research explores the abrupt transformation of the official historical narrative and underscores the pivotal role of historians as memory actors. The study delves into the "memory game" between two schools of historians in independent Kazakhstan, revealing the agency of a new generation of historians in reshaping the national historical narrative through the historicizing strategies (Mink and Neumeyer 2013), thus, engaging in memory politics. This contribution extends the literature on the mnemonic context in Kazakhstan and non-state memory actors in authoritarian settings, shedding light on the dynamics of historical representation and memory politics in evolving mnemonic landscapes.