8D02201 – History

Cipher – name of the specialty:

8D02201 – History

Training period:

The scientific and pedagogical direction is – 3 years

Profile – 3 years

Awarded degree:

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), specialty 8D02201 – History

Doctor of Arts in specialty 8D02201 – History

Sphere of professional activity:

  • educational (pedagogical) activity in the system of higher education,
  • research work,
  • Management activities in the foreign economic and foreign policy areas,
  • project: design, research institutes and organizations as senior and junior research associates, consultants.

Subject of professional activity:

  • Historical sources, library collections, special scientific research in the field of world and national history;
  • knowledge of the methodology and practical skills of historical and interdisciplinary scientific research and the ability to implement them in analytical, research and teaching activities.

Objects of professional activity:

Higher educational institutions; scientific research institutes, departmental scientific research organizations, control and analytical services of the bodies of internal policy of state administration, museums and archives.

Types of professional activity:

  • pedagogical activity;
  • research activities;
  • cultural and educational activities;
  • organizational and management activities;
  • Expert and analytical activities.

Practical bases:

  • Aktobe Regional Museum of History and Local Lore
  • Aktobe Regional State Archives

Entrance exams for groups of educational programs for doctoral studies are held in the following terms:

1) From 4 to 20 August of the calendar year;

2) From November 19th to December 11th of the calendar year.

When submitting documents, the applicant indicates one OVPO in one group of educational programs.

Persons applying for doctoral studies submit the following set of documents:

1) An application in any form;

2) A document of education (original, when submitting documents to the admissions committee);

3) Identity document (required for identification);

4) Official certificate of passing the exam in the state language (KAZTEST) issued by the NTC, with the exception of foreign citizens;

5) A certificate confirming proficiency in a foreign language:

English language proficiency:

International English language Test System Academic (IELTS) (IELTS Academic), the threshold score is at least 5.0;

Test of English a Foreign Language Institutional Testing Program Internet-based Test (TOEFL IBT) (TOEFL IT), threshold score – at least 417;

TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication), the threshold score is at least 550;

Duolingo English Test, the threshold score is at least 80;

German language knowledge:

Deutshe Sprachpruefung fuer den Hoshchhulzugang Niveau B1 (DSH. Niveau B1) – not lower than level B1;

TestDaF – Prufung Niveau B1 (TYDIEF, niveau B1) – not lower than level B1;

French language knowledge:

Test de Francais International (TFI) (TFI) – at least level B1 in the reading and listening sections;

Diplome d Etudes en Langue francais (DELF) – not lower than level B1;

Diplome Approfondi de Langue francais (DALF) (DALF) – not lower than level B1;

Test de connaissance du francais (TCF) (TSF) – not lower than level B1.

6) A medical certificate in the form 075/y in electronic format, approved by order no. KR DSM -175/2020

7) Six photos measuring 3×4 centimeters.

8) A document confirming employment in accordance with the Labor Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, with the exception of foreign citizens;

9) A list of scientific publications for the last 3 calendar years (if available), a research plan and an essay;

10) The results of the preliminary selection (in the field of education, health).

The documents listed in subparagraphs 4), 5) and 8) are provided in originals and copies, after verification of which the originals are returned to the applicant.

Persons who have the certificate Test of English a Foreign Language Institutional Testing Program Internet-based Test (Test of English fz and Foreign Language Institute of International Testing programs Internet basic test) (TOEFL IBT) (TOEFL IT)  They take additional English language proficiency tests (hereinafter referred to as additional testing) before the start of the doctoral entrance exam.

The number of test tasks for additional testing is 100 questions. The maximum number of points is 100 points.

Additional testing is evaluated in the form of “admission” or “non–admission”. To get the “admission” score, you must score at least 75 points.

Additional testing is carried out in the NTC in organizations designated by the authorized body in the field of science and higher education.

The date, time and place of additional testing are brought to the attention of applicants through their personal account.

The results of additional testing are displayed on the computer screen after the completion of additional testing.

Based on the results of additional testing, an electronic certificate is issued, which is published and confirmed on the NTC website and sent to the applicant’s personal account.

The certificate of additional training conducted in the period from August 4 to August 20 is valid until December 1 of the current calendar year.

The certificate of additional training conducted in the period from November 18 to December 11 is valid until March 1 of the next calendar year.

If an incomplete list of documents specified in this paragraph is provided, the admission committee does not accept documents from applicants.

Examination questions for applicants to PhD doctoral studies

in the educational program “8D02201-History”

  1. Describe the historiographic and source basis of the problem of the role of Muslim spirituality in the traditional Kazakh society.
  2. Describe a new conceptualization of the problems of the Soviet reforms’ impact on agriculture.
  3. Analyze the theoretical and methodological aspects of the Kazakh-Russian and Kazakh-Chinese relations’ problem in the XVIII-XIX centuries.
  4. Describe the stages, specifics and historical significance of the Kazakh people’s national liberation movement.
  5. Describe the features of the Kazakh-Chinese relations in the XVIII-XIX centuries.
  6. Analyze the problem of the Kazakhstanis’ contribution to the victory in the Great Patriotic War.
  7. Describe the essence of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the colonial land policy of the Russian Empire in the Soviet period.
  8. Give a historiographic and source analysis of foreign studies related to the history of Kazakhstan in modern times.
  9. Analyze the processes of formation and development of Soviet historical science in Kazakhstan.
  10. Analyze the degree of study in the Western historiography of the Soviet Kazakhstan’ history.
  11. Highlight the problems of the history Kazakh Khanate’s history of the 16th-17th centuries in the independent Kazakhstan’ historiography.
  12. Highlight the problems of the history of Kazakhstan in the 16th-18th centuries in Western historiography.
  13. Analyze the history and historiography of the cultural revolution in Kazakhstan (20-30s of the twentieth century).
  14. Tell us about the significance of samples of oral folk art as a source on the history of Kazakhstan in the 18th-19th centuries.
  15. Analyze the features of ancient and ancient Eastern civilization’s development.
  16. Describe the features of the economic development of Europe in the late Middle Ages (XVI –mid-XVII centuries).
  17. Describe the development of socio-political thought and culture in the time of Enlightenment.
  18. Give a comparative analysis of the evolutionary and revolutionary models of social development.
  19. Describe the history of the national liberation struggle and revolutionary movements, the foundation of new states in Latin America in the first half of the 19th century.
  20. Compare the features of the countries of the East and West in modern times’ civilizational development.
  21. Reveal the features of the content of the post-industrial society’s theory (the so-called “Third Wave”) by E. Toffler.
  22. Give a new assessment to the research of the national liberation uprisings’ history of the XIX – early XX century in the historiography of independent Kazakhstan.
  23. Analyze the course and beginning of historical and demographic research in the historiography of independent Kazakhstan.
  24. Describe the significance of political repressions’ documents of the Soviet period as a source on the history of national liberation movements and give an example.
  25. Describe the significance of legislative acts as a source on the history of independent Kazakhstan and give an example.
  26. Analyze the methodology and principles of source analysis.
  27. Describe the classification of historical sources, give examples.
  28. Analyze the legislative acts of the Russian Empire adopted in relation to the Kazakh region.
  29. Tell us about the history of the emergence of scientific institutions in Kazakhstan and the Society for the Study of Kazakhstan in the 20-30s of the twentieth century.
  30. Describe the problems of the history of tribal unions and early state associations on the territory of Kazakhstan in the A.Sh.Kadyrbayev, B.E.Komekov, S.M.Syzdykov, S.K.Igibaev works.
  31. Describe the problems of history, political system, social structure of the ancient Turkic state and historical monuments of the Turks in the studies of Yu.A.Zuev, S.K.Igibaev, T.Z.Kayyrken, S.Karzhaubai, T.S.Zhumaganbetov.
  32. Describe the analysis of the problems of the history of Kazakhstan of the pre-revolutionary and Soviet periods in foreign historiography.
  33. Analyze the historiography of the formation and management system’s history of the Turkic Khaganate in the works of N.Ya.Bichurin, V.V.Bartold, N.A.Aristov, N.M.Bernshtam, L.N.Gumilev.
  34. Analyze the main problems of anthroposociogenesis in modern Western historiography.
  35. Describe the contribution of Arab culture to the civilizational development of mankind in the Middle Ages.
  36. Describe the history of the emergence and stages of development of the French historical school “Annals”, characterize its place in the development of modern historical science.
  37. Describe the features of the formation and development of European absolutism in the early modern period.
  38. Analyze the causes, course and consequences of the process of religious Reformation in Europe.
  39. Analyze the main prerequisites and reasons for the start of colonial conquests, the process of creating the largest colonial empires.
  40. Conduct a source analysis of revolutionary movements in modern Europe: background, stages, political programs, results.
  41. Analyze the features of the formation of the system of international relations in the era of modern times, the concept of “Great powers”.
  42. Analyze the prerequisites and causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union, evaluate the consequences of this event in the geopolitical aspect.
  43. Analyze the features of the source research’ methods.
  44. Reveal the essence of methodological limitations in Soviet historical science.
  45. Determine the place of shezhire in the source study of Kazakh history.
  46. Reveal the theoretical and methodological problems of Russian source science.
  47. Reveal the essence of the methodological foundations of historiographical science.
  48. Analyze the methodological and theoretical problems of national history in the conditions of independence.
  49. Analyze the classification of source conceptsб terms and periodicals.
  50. Reveal the ideological content of the magazine “Aikap” and the newspaper “Kazakh”.
  51. Reveal the essence of theoretical and methodological synthesis at the present time.
  52. Reveal the essence of the principles of classification of historical sources.
  53. Describe and compare the problem of Kazakh-Dzhungarian and Kazakh-Kalmyk relations in the studies of Soviet historians (I.Ya.Zlatkin, N.G.Apollova, V.Y.Basin, V.A.Moiseev).
  54. Highlight the history of the policy of “war communism”, the famine of 1921-1922 and the problem of regional uprisings against Soviet power in historical literature. Give the opinion of the researchers.
  55. Tell us about the works of Kazakhstani researchers (N.E. Bekmakhanov) concerning the history of the participation of Kazakhs in the peasant uprising led by E. Pugachev.
  56. Describe the study of the problem of growth and development of socio-political consciousness of the population of Kazakhstan in the XIX-early XX century in the 1950s-80s (D.Kabdiev, K.A.Zhirenchin).
  57. Describe the study of the national democratic movement’s history at the beginning of the twentieth century in the historiography of independent Kazakhstan.
  58. Analyze, characterize the features of the social structure of Ancient society.
  59. Analyze the background, causes, course and consequences of the Great French bourgeois revolution. Describe the historiography of the problem.
  60. Describe the concept of “Industrial Revolution”. Analyze the features of the influence of scientific and technological progress and the development of capitalism on Western society.
  61. Analyze the general and specific features of the world colonial system, characterize the source base of the problem.
  62. Analyze source data on the demographic, political and economic consequences of the First World War.
  63. Analyze the main directions of ancient philosophical thought and historiography.
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