The Mode of Life of the Kazakhs in the 15th - 19th Centuries as a Reflection of Economic and Cultural Type of Nomadic Civilization
The article deals with the mode of life and economy of the nomadic Kazakhs in the 15th - 19th centuries, the economic and cultural type of nomadic civilization of peoples inhabiting the Euroasian steppes being reflected. The author has analyzed relations of nomadic and settled communities, as for centuries the Kazakh people was in close contact with the lands and peoples representing the settled civilization, in particular with Mawarannahr and Eastern Turkestan, and also with the Russian space. The latter is represented by the East Slavic people of the Russian state. The turning point in the history of the Kazakh nomadic nation-building was that when the Kazakh society had to find its place in the context of the 15th - 19th centuries. At this particular time the formation of the Kazakh people and traditional Kazakh nomadic nation-building took place; when the Kazakh nomadic civilization met the European one, a synonym for which was the Russian state in the views of the Kazakh nomads.