PROHIBITON OF "KITABI-DADA GORGUD" EPIC, ITS REASONS AND "EXONERATION”

Abstract

The epic "Kitabi-Dade Gorgud" belonging to the XI-XII centuries is an ancient Oghuz Turkish epic and is the oldest written monument of Azerbaijani folk literature. "Dada Gorgud" sagas were written down in the 11th century under the name "Kitabi-Dadam Gorgud". The copies that have reached us are manuscripts copied in the 16th century. The German orientalist Friedrich von Dietz was the first to study the monument.
The main essence of of the "Dada Gorgud" epic is the protection of the homeland, the life- and-death war of the ancient Oghuz against foreign invaders, love of the homeland, bravery, heroism, love for parents, etc. organizes many moral-didactic organizes meetings. However, in the 50s of the XX century, under the ideological influence of the Soviet totalitarian regime, the epic "Dada Gorgud" was banned as a literary monument that incites national enmity. I. After Stalin's death in 1953, the situation changed a little, and only from the beginning of the 1960s, the epic could be "vindicated".
In 1951, according to Moscow's instructions, the epic "Kitabi-Dade Gorgud" was considered "harmful", "a work that propagates bourgeois nationalism", and its teaching and research was prohibited, and its publication and promotion were stopped. After that, the "Dada Gorgud" epic entered its ban period. After the accusations against the epic, the positions of individual scientists were sharply criticized. In accordance with the famous "Zhdanov decisions" directed against literature and art, attacks against "Kitabi-Dade Gorgud" were launched. It was reported that "Kitabi-Dada Gorgud" was not a folk epic at all, and slogans were raised to "brutally expose those who spread the epic and arrest them."
Amin Abid, one of the influential researchers of "Kitabi-Dada Gorgud", was silenced forever after publishing several works dedicated to the epic. In May 1951, Mirza Ibrahimov, Samad Vurgun, Mikayil Rafili, Mikayil Rzaguluzade and others in this field admitted their "mistakes". ", but the campaign against them continued for some time.
However, after the "exoneration" of the epic, the research and promotion of the "Dada Gorgud" epic continued. A new stage in the history of the continuous and productive study of the "Book of Grandfather Gorgud" began with the decree of the National Leader of the Azerbaijani people Heydar Aliyev dated February 27, 1997, on the celebration of the 1300th anniversary of the epic. With that decree, the "Book of Grandfather Gorgud" began to be studied at a great speed in the period until the anniversary celebration of April 8, 2000.