In the article methodological approaches, scientific concepts, formation and features of research directions are
analyzed on the basis of works devoted to the study of nomadism in historical science.It shows the influence of
the views of the formational theory on studies that dominated since the 30s of the 20th century in the historical
science of the Soviet period, in which problems of socio-political organization and cultural development of
Абай атындағы ҚазҰПУ-нің ХАБАРШЫСЫ, «Тарих және саяси-әлеуметтік ғылымдар» сериясы, №3(58), 2018 ж.
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nomadic society were studied.It was found out that there was a complete rejection of the scientific results, based
on the evolutionary theory, achieved in the field of nomadism by the historiography of the new era of the pre-
revolutionary period of imperial Russia.
In the Soviet period, the totalitarian system used the humanities scientists as an ideological tool, to establish
control over the scientific process and to use its results to serve as a political propaganda. Marxist-Leninist
ideology, which became the methodological basis of research in the Soviet period, and devoid of its foundations,
has become a dogma.
In the post-war period, new scientific paradigms (civilizational, structural, and anthropological) began to form
in Western historical science. New directions in the theory of historical research, such as mental history, neo-
evolutionism, micro-history, world-system analysis, and others have been developed.The research based on an
interdisciplinary approach has increased. Western scholars of the 50s and 70s discussed various phenomena of
synthesis. Such directions as social and historical anthropology appeared, and neo-evolutionary scheme of socio-
genesis was defined.
In the historiography of the post-Soviet period, new approaches and scientific directions in the field of theory
that were formed in foreign historiography took their place only in the 1990s. Since the 80th of the 20th century in
Soviet historiography, civilizational theory became widespread as an alternative, which became the dogma of the
Marxist-Leninist concept.At present, the neo-evolutionary theory, the different concepts of the study of the
political and socio-genesis of nomadic society, the scientific methods of ethnologists, culturologists,
anthropologists, sociologists and other scientists help to raise the level of research in historical science, including
nomadic problems, to a new level.
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