Activities of the national intelligentsia to organize assistance to the Kazakhs mobilized for rear work during the First World War

The article examines the role of figures Alash movement and Kazakh intelligentsia in organizing assistance to Kazakhs mobilized for rear work during First World War. With beginning requisition, activities public committees organization intensified. his direct participation Alikhan Bukeikhan associates creation a foreign department under Committee Union on Western Front, which monitored living working conditions guards, dealt with their nutrition treatment. authors come conclusion that numerous appeals «Alash» demanding immediate return workers duty cessation further mobilization lead fact Provisional Government was forced issue special decree suspending work. In general, analysis archival materials showed involvement educated youth Foreign Department assist compatriots allowed them go through serious political school, they fully managed prove themselves subsequent revolutions.