On the authorship of Alikhan Bokeikhan’s works, published under the pseudonym “V”

Abstract

In 2016, a 15-volume collection of works by Alash leader Alikhan Bokeikhan was published. The collection in 15 volumes is written with painstaking work and deep searches. However, some articles and records given in the multi-volume book by Bokeikhan scholars are not related to the leader of the nation A. Bokeikhan and raises doubts and questions. Particular attention should be paid to articles written under some controversial pseudonyms. For example, articles written under the name “V”, which is considered one of the aliases of the leader of Alash, do not correspond to the language style and political position of Bokeikhan. In this article, based on linguistic and historical data, the affiliation to Bokeikhan of articles registered under the pseudonym “V” in the 15-volume collection of Alikhan Bokeikhan is analyzed. It is proved that some of the records associated with this pseudonym do not belong to A. Bokeikhan, but to Moldagali Zholdybaev, who at the beginning was in the Alash government, and then joined the Bolsheviks and was a supporter of the communist idea. It is shown that the political views of these authors and their positions regarding the political course of the Communist Party and Soviet ideology also do not coincide. As a result, it is concluded that there are two authors behind the pseudonym “V”, and it was established who owns which work.