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Extracting & organizing information in the source
v Read these documents to find out pieces of evidence on the following topics:
A. Kenesary’s military organization (incl. the reasons for its success or failure)
B. Economic basis of Kenesary’s rule
C. Kenesary’s (and his followers’) relations with non-Qazaq neighbours other than the Russians
D. Kenesary’s (and his followers’) relations with those Qazaqs who did not share his agenda (and vice versa)
E. What Kenesary asked from the Russians (and how his requests changed over time)
Batch 1, “kenesary Kasymov and the Russians, 1837-1847”
Doc. 1.I (Perovskii on the best means of defeating KK, end 1841)
| Question | answer | Topic (A to E) |
| What difficulties in chasing down KK does Perovskii complain about? | ||
| What is the state of the relations between KK and the Russians, as Perovskii describes them? | ||
| What course of action does Perovskii suggest for the future? | ||
| What happened to the Russian salesmen who travelled among Kenesary’s followers? | ||
| How does Perovskii describe the relation between Kenesary and Tashkent/Kokand? |
1) How would you describe the tone of Perovskii’s letter? (i.e. what is his attitude towards the recipient?)
o Apologetic
o Hostile
o Flattering
2) How do you think this might have influenced the way he presents the facts reported here?
Doc. 1.II (Zhemchuzhnikov on KK, 1844)
| Question | answer | Topic (A to E) |
| What are the differences between KK’s cavalry and horses and those of the Russians? |
Doc. 1.III (Sultan Ahmad Jantura to OFC, 1844)
| Question | answer | Topic (A to E) |
| Is Sultan Ahmad Jantura a supporter of KK? | ||
| Where does he say KK is recruiting supporters? [Why was he able to gain support there, in your educated opinion?] | ||
| Why does Sulatn Ahmad Jantura fear attacks in early spring? | ||
| What does Sultan Ahmad Jantura want from the OFC? |
3) How would you describe the tone of Sultan Ahmed Jantura’s letter?
o Arrogant
o Servile
o Alarmed
4) How do you think this might have influenced the way he presents the facts reported here?
Doc. 1.IV (KK to a group of Kz leaders – intercepted, 1844)
| Question | answer | Topic (A to E) |
| How (in what tone) does KK address the recipients? | ||
| Were the recipients willingly supporting KK? |
5) How would you describe the tone of KK’s letter?
o Imploring
o Threatening
o Apologetic
Doc. 1.V (Dolgov’s report, 1845)
| Question | answer | Topic (A to E) |
| What does KK complain about when he replies to Dolgov? | ||
| What does KK promise as a token of piece with the Russians? [last lines] |
6) In the first paragraph, how is Dolgov’s attitude towards KK presented?
o Self-confident
o Alarmed
o Flattering
7) How much do you think you can rely on this document to work out the relation between the Russian emissary and KK?
8) Do you think that KK was able to interpret Russian expectations? o yes o no.
Why?
Doc. 1.VII (KK to Gorchakov, 1845)
| Question | answer | Topic (A to E) |
| What is KK complaining about? |
9) How would you describe KK’s tone?
o Humble
o Arrogant
o Apologetic
10) Compare and contrast the tone of this letter to that of other letters KK was addressing to the Russian authorities.
Doc. 1.VIII (KK to Obruchev, 1845)
| Question | answer | Topic (A to E) |
| What is KK complaining about here? |
11) How would you describe KK’s tone?
o Humble
o Arrogant
o Apologetic
12) Compare and contrast the tone of this letter to that of other letters KK was addressing to the Russian authorities, including the document immediately above.
Batch 2, “Documents relating to KK and his activities”
Doc. 2.1 (Chanyshev to Akmola okrug pristav, 1837)
| Question | answer | Topic (A to E) |
| What did the followers of KK do to some Kz who were under the authority of the Akmola okrug? | ||
| What did the Konrat ask for? (what were they expecting from the Russians?) | ||
| What was the author concerned about – KK’s raids or something else, too? |
Doc. 2.2 (Kk to the tsar 1838)
| Question | answer | Topic (A to E) |
| What is KK complaining about? | ||
| What are his requests? | ||
| Why does he refer to his grandfather Ablay? | ||
| What is his attitude towards the “junior administrators”? why? what is he denying? | ||
| What image of himself does KK give (or try to give) in this message? |
13) How would you describe the tone of Kenesary’s message?
o Apologetic
o Hostile
o Flattering
Doc. 2.3 (KK to Perovskii, 1841)
| Question | answer | Topic (A to E) |
| What relation between KK and the töra “along the Siberian line” emerges from the first lines? What did KK want from them? | ||
| What were KK’s followers’ relations with the Kokandis? | ||
| Why is KK mentioning Kokand’s encroachments with some Qazaqs? | ||
| Why is he claiming not to have attacked the caravan? | ||
| What is he asking for from the Russians? |
14) How would you describe the tone of Perovskii’s letter? (i.e. what is his attitude towards the recipient?)
o Apologetic
o Confrontational
o Alarmed
15) How do you think this might have influenced the way he presents the facts reported here?
16) Have we seen other documents from the same year? Is there any relation between them?
Doc. 2.4 (KK to the biys, 1843)
| Question | answer | Topic (A to E) |
| What were the biys in question ‘guilty’ of? | ||
| Does KK use religious images or arguments? How? |
17) How would you describe KK’s tone in this message?
o Cordial
o Threatening
o Humble
Doc. 2.5 (KK to Arslan Sultan, 1844)
| Question | answer | Topic (A to E) |
| What was Arslan Sultan’s fault? | ||
| Why is KK addressing him? What is the relation between them? | ||
| Does KK use religious images? How? |
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