ELECTIONAL EXPERIENCE AND MODERN PROBLEMS IN KYRGYZ SOCIETY (POLITICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS)

Abstract

The article analyzes changes in the administrative and political system of government, political changes associated with the introduction of a new system of government, as well as the practice of local elections in the second half of the 19th century after the inclusion of the current territory of Kyrgyzstan into Tsarist Russia. The influence of these political changes on the consciousness of the population, its way of life and social structure is examined. The tsarist government widely used such attractive practices as raising the ranks of representatives of the local population who worked diligently in administrative management, providing land for use with the right of inheritance, conferring honorary titles, and awarding orders and medals. This political structure and system of governance of Kyrgyz society, laid down in the second half of the 19th century, remained virtually unchanged until the introduction of the power of the Council after 1917. These processes and electoral practices have historical significance as the first electoral experience for the Kyrgyz people, and the influence of negative experiences in them after. The October Revolution and the current period of independence seem to have been the source of some failures in the management system.