The People's Commissariat for Nationalities of the TASSR was established by the decision of the V Congress of the Turkestan Republic Soviets on April 30, 1918. The mission of the Turkomnats People's Commissariat for Nationalities of the TASSR included: actualize the ideas of the Soviet authority among the respective nationalities in their native language; taking all measures to increase the cultural level and class consciousness among the masses of nationalities inhabiting the territory of the republic; to struggle against counter-revolution in all national manifestations; to react against national-bourgeois governments; collection of statistical data on nationalities.
The People's Commissariat for Nationalities of the TASSR temporarily suspended its activities on December 10, 1919 and later was again functioned by the decision of the Central Executive Committee of the Turkestan ASSR on September 21, 1921. It was liquidated by the order of the People's Commissariat for Nationalities of the TASSR on July 14, 1922.
Decrees and resolutions of the Turkestan Central Executive Committee, the Council of People's Commissars, the People's Commissariat for Nationalities of the RSFSR and the People's Commissariat for Nationalities of the Turkestan ASSR on measures to implement the national policy of Lenin in Turkestan. Regulations on the People's Commissariat for Nationalities of the Turkestan ASSR and its departments; a copy of the article of the People's Commissar for National Affairs I. V. Stalin in the newspaper “Pravda” on April 9, 1918 (“One of the immediate tasks”).
Protocols of the meetings of the collegium of the People's Commissariat for Nationalities of the Turkestan ASSR. Reports and memorandums of the People's Commissariat for Nationalities on its activities; memorandums and information summaries of representatives of the Turkomnats and regional national departments on the involvement of the local population in Soviet construction, on the emergence of Bolshevik branches in villages and countries, reports, information and correspondence on establishing of village councils, land and water committees, on the opening of courses, libraries, reading rooms , on sending students from local nationalities to universities in Moscow and Leningrad, on the establishing of national departments (Uzbek, Tajik, Turkmen, Kirghiz, etc.) under the People's Commissariat for Nationalities of the TASSR; and about their activities; historical and ethnographic information about Turkestan.
