The collectivization and “nationalities” policies of the 1920s and 1930s were meant to modernize clans out of existence by turning wandering herdspeople into sedentary Soviet subjects and overwhelming old clan affiliations with new and larger “national” identities such as Kyrgyz, Turkmen, or Kazakh.
The collectivization and "nationalities" policies of the 1920s and 1930s aimed to assimilate clans by transforming wandering herders into settled Soviet subjects and replacing their ancestral affiliations with new, broader national identities such as Kyrgyz, Turkmen, or Kazakh.