%0 Journal Article %T The APPROACH to the MUSAVATISTS and AZERBAIJAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC in the SOVIET OFFICIAL HISTORICISM %A Refik TURAN %J - %D 2019 %X From the beginning of the 1960s until the collapse of the USSR, the official historiography of the Soviet Union and the history textbooks of Azerbaijan, which were studied in Azerbaijan, were to reveal the approach of the M¨¹savatists and the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan. In this study, the ¡±general screening model¡° and ¡±document analysis¡° technique was used. In the research, a three-volume study on the History of Azerbaijan, which was published by the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR, and a sample of history textbooks which were taught in Azerbaijan between 1960-1990, reflecting the official view of the Soviet Union until the fall of the USSR, were studied. At the end of the research, it was understood that the Soviet official historiography approached the historical events and processes of Azerbaijan between 1917-1920 in the form of struggles between Bolsheviks and foreign imperialists. Thus, while the Bolsheviks are bigger than the role they play in Azerbaijan's history, the role of the Musavat Party, the representative of the Azerbaijani national movement, is reduced to the role of collaborator of the foreign occupiers who are trying to prevent the Azerbaijani people's freedom movement and its historical role and importance are overlooked and worthless. The Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan is considered as the government of the bourgeois and big landowners, and the national policies applied are evaluated and criticized as reactions of reaction, counterrevolution, and Ottomanization. The approach style of Soviet historiography mentioned above very briefly against the Musavat and the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic is also reflected in the history textbooks taught in the USSR %K SSCB %K Azerbaycan SSC %K M¨¹savat Partisi %K Azerbaycan Demokratik Cumhuriyeti %K Marksist Tarih Anlay£¿£¿£¿ %K Sovyet Tarihyaz£¿m£¿ %U http://dergipark.org.tr/tuhed/issue/43050/555329