Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR
On May 31, 1930 (i.e., at the time when Yu. Abdrakhmanov was sending his second letter to I. V. Stalin), based on the report of the Council of People's Commissars of the republic, the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR adopted the resolution "On Economic and Cultural Construction and Prospects for the Development of the Kyrgyz ASSR".
Noting the successes and certain shortcomings in economic and cultural construction, the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR defines the prospects for the development of the autonomous republic. Moreover, almost on all sufficiently extensive issues of economic and socio-cultural construction, the Federation's government is forced to take into account the presence of dual and triple subordination of the autonomous republic and therefore formulate the points of the resolution in a non-specific way, i.e., so that each point could later be "coordinated" with the Central Asian and union bodies.
In point 5, the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR is instructed to "work on the issue of expanding the Alamedin and Frunze power stations and constructing the Karakol thermal power station, and to detail the prospects for the development of industry in the Kyrgyz ASSR." Similarly vague, leaving the need for inevitable agreements, are the instructions to the Ministry of Finance of the RSFSR "to take into account the low level of cultural services for the population and the need for further expansion of its economy, especially in border areas, when working on the issue of financing the consolidated budget of the Kyrgyz ASSR."
More specific — and this stands out — are points 7-10, which discuss measures for public education and healthcare. In this area, the competence of the RSFSR government was absolute.
The Ministry of Health, in connection with the completion of the construction of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, was suggested to "pay special attention to the development of resorts in Kyrgyzstan... and to provide for the corresponding allocations in the control figures for 1930-1931." The People's Commissariat of Labor was instructed to "work out a two-month period together with the government of the Kyrgyz ASSR on the issue of providing Kyrgyzstan, as part of inter-agency redistribution, by sending young specialists who have completed higher education institutions, with personnel on planned issues, industry, trade, and agriculture." The State Planning Committee of the RSFSR and the Council of People's Commissars of the Kyrgyz ASSR were suggested "to pay special attention to studying the productive forces of Kyrgyzstan when working on the control figures for 1930-1931."
Lenin's course towards the elimination of centralist authoritarianism needed constant support and required careful attention. Documents show that Yu. Abdrakhmanov, who acutely felt the manifestations of the remnants of great power authoritarianism, reacted sharply, and sometimes harshly, to their manifestations.
"For the 1927-1928 agricultural year," he wrote, "of the total amount of agricultural credit intended for financing agriculture in Kyrgyzstan, 44% went to the European peasantry of the Frunze canton, which constitutes about 11% of the total population of the republic, while the Kyrgyz population, which is mainly engaged in animal husbandry and makes up about 70% of the total population (20% are exclusively engaged in animal husbandry and 50% in both animal husbandry and agriculture), received about 5%.
This is not a coincidence, but the result of the policy of Rosselbank, which, when determining the target allocations of credit, approached us with a measure suitable for the agricultural part of the RSFSR, without taking into account our national and economic features. Timely measures taken by the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Kyrgyz Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) to correct this gross "error" have unfortunately not yet had any significant impact on the policy of Rosselbank. This year, it continues to adhere to its old line, clearly different from the party's line on the national question and practically leading to a delay in the development of the main branch of the Kyrgyz economy — animal husbandry."
But all this was written when Yusup Abdrakhmanov was the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars.
Unanswered Letters of Yu. Abdrakhmanov to Stalin