bilig-22/ Summer 2002

THE INVESTIGATOR OF ALL-TURKISH LITERATURE - AMIN ABED

 

Ali Shamil Hussein ošlu
The leader of the group in the Azerbaijan Encyclopedia


ABSTRACT

      Recently the investigators and men of other professions of Turkish peoples have often come together. They either go down the depth of history or investigate the realities of the present day. In such period it must be considered as a fault to forget, not to remember the men who took an active part in this.
      One of the men whose services are forgotten is Amin Abed. It is so pity that even in his 100th anniversary the name of this selfless intellectual was not remembered, his birthday was not celebrated anywhere. Amin Abed devoted all of his life to the investigation of all-Turkish literature. He has a lot of works about it.
      24 years after Amin Abed's death who became a victim of the Soviet reaction in 1938 he was fully exonerated. But in reality that was a physical rehabilitation. After Stalin's death all the shortcomings that were caused by socialism were written on his name. Blood that was shed, cruelties that were acted in order to save the communist party and the socialism system that was created by it were written on only one person's name.
      In 1956 most of the men who were arrested and shot during 1920-1940 in USSR were exonerated. Most of hundreds of persons who were arrested during those years could not bear hard condition and died. Those who were alive were not able to struggle against the shortcomings of the society.
      Although the rehabilitation was declared in words, the damage to the arrested persons and those who were shot were not paid. The publishing of the works of writers, poets and investigators were not allowed. Only selected works of a group of authors were published.
      Although the Soviet ideologists who were afraid of a strong stimulus that could arouse the national consciousness rehabilitated Amin Abed they did not allow publishing his articles and poems again.


Key Words :
Amin Abed, Common Turkish Culture, History of Literature,
National Consciousness

 

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