Party Work of O. Tynaev
O. Tynaev's Resume
Those who have delved into the history of the country during those years know that frequent shifts, reshuffles, and personnel changes were a favorite method of Stalin's cadre management. In Kyrgyzstan, the situation was complicated by a severe shortage of literate workers from the indigenous population. In an attempt to patch up all the gaps, available personnel were transferred from one position to another. O. Tynaev is no exception. Here is his resume.
At the 3rd Party Conference of the Kirghiz Regional Committee (March 1927), O. Tynaev, still a final-year student at KUTV, was elected as a member of the regional party organization by correspondence and proposed for the position of head of the department of agitation and propaganda of the regional committee of the VKP(b). He worked in this position for a short time, from May 28 to October 1, 1927. At the same time, he was elected as a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kirghiz ASSR by correspondence. On May 31, 1927, when Osmon returned from Moscow, he was included in the newly formed parliamentary commission of the Kirghiz Central Executive Committee to verify translations and printed codes of laws translated into the Kyrgyz language. Osmon's excellent knowledge of Kyrgyz and Russian played a significant role in this appointment, which was undoubtedly a rarity among Kyrgyz people at that time.
From November 1927 to May 1928, O. Tynaev worked as the responsible secretary of the Naryn party committee. In June 1928, he was again transferred to a similar position, but in the well-known Karakol canton, where he stayed for about six months. From there, Osmon was elected as a delegate to the II All-Kyrgyz Congress of Soviets, which adopted the first Constitution of the Kyrgyz people in 1929.
On October 29, 1928, O. Tynaev was again transferred to the apparatus of the regional party committee, to the position of head of the department for work in the village. On January 14, 1929, he was simultaneously appointed chairman of the Collegium of the Supreme Control for land and water disputes under the Kirghiz Central Executive Committee.
In difficult times, Osmon headed one of the most important departments of the regional party committee when the Stalinist leadership began a radical revision of its previous policy towards the peasantry. The Great Break was inexorably intruding into our lives. It is now difficult to determine how O. Tynaev accepted the idea of collectivization "in the Stalinist way." Most likely, like many other communists who believed in the party, he welcomed the era of establishing "kolkhoz and sovkhoz happiness" with joy and hope.
Revolutionary euphoria was replaced by a heavy hangover. The hasty mass collectivization, without the necessary material and technical preparation, a complete rejection of Lenin's teachings, led to a catastrophic decline in agricultural production, a massive reduction in livestock, and the terrible famine of 1932-1933, a new wave of refugees to China, and a revival of banditry. In the end, all this was understood by Yusup Abdrakhmanov, Erkinbek Esenamanov, and many others. Osmon Tynaev understood it too. For his concern and compassion for the troubles of his people, for the fate of socialism in our country, the Kyrgyz people should be proud of their glorious sons. Proud at least of the fact that among them there was no submission to Stalin's dictate, that among those voices that sounded in unison against the arbitrariness towards the peasants — the voices of Bukharin, Rykov, Tomsky, and other Leninist comrades — their voices were also heard locally.
In April 1930, O. Tynaev was appointed as the responsible secretary of the largest party organization in Kyrgyzstan — the Osh Regional Party Committee. He worked in this position until the liquidation of the region. In August 1930, the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR decided to liquidate the regions. In accordance with this resolution, the Kirghiz Central Executive Committee abolished the Osh region, all cantons and volosts, and formed 24 districts in their place. From the Osh party organization, Osmon was delegated to the XVI Congress of the VKP(b) with a decisive vote. This congress went down in our history as the "Congress of the Expanded Offensive of Socialism on All Fronts." It is worth noting that on September 13, 1930, shortly before the liquidation of the region, O. Tynaev was appointed chairman of the government commission for regulating land use in the pasture and nomadic areas of southern Kyrgyzstan.
The Life and Tragedy of Osmon Tynaev
