SHORT HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF TASHKENT AND ITS CLASSIFICATION
The article analyzes and summarizes the most important historiographical works on the history of Tashkent. The peculiarity of the work is engaging in scientific use of new materials that have emerged due to discoveries of certain funds, the State Archives of Uzbekistan. The author stresses the importance of historiographical works of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Soviet historiography is represented by the works of the active participants of revolutionary changes in Turkestan. Foreign historical school worked out its own (alternative) interpretation of the processes of development of the national movement, which underwent a purposeful falsification by many Soviet historians. Former Kazakhstan compatriots and people from various national regions of Russia contributed greatly into the historiography of the problem.