National policy in Kazakh SSR in 1945–1953

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to study and analyze the Soviet national policy in Kazakhstan in the first postwar decade (1945–1953), as well as to identify the main factors and trends that influenced the national policy of the Communist Party. In the post-war period, the actions of the party to combat bourgeois nationalism were intensified in Kazakhstan. The party controlled all spheres of public life, carried out work on ideological and political education in the spirit of Marxist-Leninist ideology. The main goal of scientists, writers, and art workers is to highlight the positive results of the party's policy and tasks to form a new personality, an image of a Soviet person. In addition, the authors analyzed the process of russification in various spheres of public life in Kazakhstan, the activities of the Stalinist leadership on the implementation of national policy in Kazakhstan. Due to the ongoing national policy in the republic, a crisis of national self-identification of Kazakhs began, which was expressed in the appearance of a sense of discrimination or an inferiority complex. The novelty of this study is the imposing materials of the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, State Archive of the Karaganda region into scientific circulation. Special attention is paid to the resolutions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, the Supreme Council and the Council of Ministers.