Sovyet döneminde okutulan tarih ders kitaplarinda azerbaycan halkinin etnik kökenine ve diLİne yaklaşim 1960

PEOPLE IN HISTORY TEXTBOOKS TAUGHT DURING THE SOVIET ERA (1960-1990)
 
ABSTRACT 
The overall assumption concerning the ethnic roots and the language of the Azerbaijani people defended 
in history textbooks studied in Soviet Azerbaijan between 1960 and 1990 demonstrates the Soviet official 
point of view on the question the best. According to this point of view, the Azerbaijani people have 
existed as the same Azerbaijani people today since the earliest periods with no reference to their current 
ethnic identities. It also claims that in the historical processes, the nomadic Turks migrated in big masses 
to Azerbaijan from the North and made settlements and adopted the sedentary life style. That resulted in 
the fact that these people came under the civilized influence of the early Azerbaijani people, who were 
more advanced in civil terms than they were. It went on claiming that although the increase of Turkish 
immigration to Azerbaijan caused the elements of Turkish language to get dominant in the Azerbaijani 
language especially in the periods including the Vth-VIIIth and XIth-XIIth centuries, the Azerbaijani 
people always maintained their early original character. Growing number of nomadic Turkmens who 
came and settled in Azerbaijan in the centuries in question increased the role of the Turkish language in 
the region. This language has, in turn, increasingly become the common language for the entire country, 
putting pressure on the earlier “Azeri” and “Aran” languages, which were the ancient languages of 
Azerbaijan. Thus, this emergi
ng language that is called “the Azerbaijani language” however belongs to 
the Turkish language family.
Keywords:
Azerbaijan SSR, history textbooks, the people of Azerbaijan, language
 
 
 
 
* Bu makale yazarın Azerbaycan’da İlk ve Ortaöğretimde Tarih Öğretimi ve Tarih Ders Kitapları (Sovyet 
Döneminden Bağımsız Azerbaycan Cumhuriyeti’ne) başlıklı doktora tezinden üretilmiştir.
** Doç. Dr.
Aksaray Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi, Türkçe ve Sosyal Bilimler Eğitimi Bölümü, 
Aksaray, [e-mail], ORCID: 
https://orcid.org/
 0000-0001-8369-800X