Abstract
<jats:p>This article analyzes the scientific heritage of Academician Hamid Ziyoyev devoted to the study of the history of national liberation movements of the peoples of Central Asia as an integral part of Uzbek historiography. The study provides a comparative analysis of the conceptual differences between the Marxist-Leninist methodology of the Soviet period and the national historical concepts formed during the years of independence. The scientific novelty of the article lies in substantiating the three-stage evolution of H. Ziyoyev’s scientific and theoretical views (the 1960s–1980s; 1991–2000; the period after 2000). By comparing H. Ziyoyev’s studies with the concepts of contemporary Uzbek historians (D. Alimova, Q. Rajabov) and Western Central Asian scholars (A. Khalid, A. Morrison, Yu. Bregel), the author identifies the scholar’s distinctive role within the paradigm of national resistance movements. Based on the analysis of primary archival sources, the article provides an objective assessment of historiographical interpretations of the Pulatkhan uprising, the Andijan uprising, and the uprising of 1916.</jats:p>