Abstract Despite significant theoretical developments in the field of land relations in Kazakhstan, studies of methodological aspects of their establishment and development in the first decade of Soviet power remain incomplete. The purpose of the study is to determine the degree of development of the methodology aimed at investigating the concept of land management in 1920-1932 in East Kazakhstan, to reveal the features of the socio-philosophical meaning of the concept in the region. The methodological base includes the method the analysis of research on the land policy of the region in 1920-1932, systematisation and synthesis of principles and methods of studying the problem, and methods of induction, deduction, historical-logical and comparative, and the method of the study of the entire complex of measures related to the process of land management in the territory of East Kazakhstan in the first decade of Soviet power. Displayed the current level of study of the problem, and determines the ways of its further understanding and development in the interests of creating a complete picture of the history of land relations in East Kazakhstan. The analysis of natural historical realities of 1920-1932, can be considered and used in the modern historical context.