Outlook of Central Asia nomads Early Middle Ages in soviet historiography second half 1930 - first half 1960 years

The study of Turkic-speaking peoples of Central Asia in the Middle Ages has drawn the attention of russian and foreign research for more than a 1.5 centuries. Among the issues under consideration in the Turkology far not least is the reconstruction of nomads' world outlook ideas. This subject has been studied even in the most dramatic period for science in USSR associated with the reprisals 1930-1940 years, the Great Patriotic war, the supremacy of one methodological paradigm (historical materialism), buttressed by an ideology. Meanwhile, even in such circumstances archaeological, written and ethnographic sources were accumulated, the principles of their analysis and interpretation were elaborated. All this has enabled scientists to establish a number of specific features of religious beliefs and rites of Turkic-speaking nomads, to note certain influence of world religions (Manichaeism and Buddhism) on their outlook. In general, the second half of 1930 - the first half of 1960 can be regarded as an extension of the period of accumulation of sources and attempts to present a more or less complete picture of the spiritual life of nomads, however, limited by methodological and ideological framework.