Study of artistic sources in Soviet historiography

The study carried out a comparative analysis of how objectively the results of the development of social thought of the Kyrgyz people are presented in the works of akyns-scribes, along with socio-political changes in the territory of Kyrgyzstan during the period of the Kokand Khanate and subsequent tsarist Russia, identified in scientific works based on archival sources. In Soviet historiography, when studying the history of Kyrgyzstan in the 19th - early 20th centuries, the main attention was paid to official documentary sources, and rare information written by representatives of the indigenous population was ignored by researchers based on Soviet ideology and did not receive a full assessment.