The historiography of the post-Stalin period can be divided into seven periods, which are preferred by scholars. A general review of the scientific literature shows that individual works are often devoted to one of the three Stalinist periods. These are: 1920-1930s, the period of the Second World War or the post-war period, until the mid-1950s, when the "exit" from the Stalin era was carried out. At the same time, historians focus on the first period. This can be easily seen from the recently published works on political campaigns, some of which are devoted to the post-war period, and others to the pre-war years. Most of the works of the most famous historians are devoted to the 1920s and 1930s.

The article deals with the classification of the historiography of power and the intelligentsia in this period of "late Stalinism".

Before the end of World War II, foreign scientists began to study this period widely before Kazakh scientists and scientists of the Soviet era. Both in the Soviet period and after the collapse of the USSR, many works by foreign authors were devoted to Soviet national policy and national issues.

The article is written on the basis of sources that have not penetrated into scientific circulation enough - periodicals and propaganda publications, which began to be studied from the third early period of the study of this historiography.