COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH CONDUCTED AFTER WORLD WAR II

In the mid-1950s, the Karakalpak ethnographic detachment of the Khorezm expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences studied the impact of socialist changes in the economy on the life and culture of the Karakalpak people during the Soviet era. New ethnographic materials (observation records, memoirs of elderly collective farmers, participants in collectivization testify to the depth of the collapse of the old system) allowed T.A. Zhdanko to briefly but holistically view the main stages of socialist reconstruction. It showed how rich the agriculture, life and culture of the Karakalpak people, previously considered backward, were. U. Kh. Shalekenov made a comparative analysis of the past and present life of Karakalpak peasants.