The Communist Party of Kazakhstan (QKP; kk, Қазақстан Коммунистік партиясы, ''Qazaqstan Kommunistık Partiasy''; russian: Коммунистическая партия Казахстана) was the ruling and sole legal political party in the
Kazakh SSR
; kk, Қазақ Советтік Социалистік Республикасы)
*1991: Republic of Kazakhstan (russian: Республика Казахстан; kk, Қазақстан Республикасы)
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Origin
The Communist Party of Kazakhstan was founded 1936, when
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
was granted a Union Republic status within the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
. The Communist Party of Kazakhstan had been a branch of
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
"Hymn of the Bolshevik Party"
, headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow
, general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last)
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(CPSU) until the
dissolution of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
.
April 24, 1990 from Art. 6 of the Constitution of the Kazakh SSR, the provision on the monopoly of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan on power was excluded.
Post-Soviet restructuring
The 18th Congress of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, held on September 7, 1991, decided to dissolve the party. The
Socialist Party
Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of t ...
was created on its basis.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev ( kk, Нұрсұлтан Әбішұлы Назарбаев, Nūrsūltan Äbişūlı Nazarbaev, ; born 6 July 1940) is a Kazakh politician and military officer who served as the first President of Kazakhstan, in off ...
, chairman of the party, resigned after the failure of the
August putsch
August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and the fifth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. Its zodiac sign is Leo and was originally named '' Sextilis'' in Latin because it was the 6th month in ...
in Moscow.
Назарбаев вышел из партии
/ref> Dissatisfied members of the old Communist Party recreated the Communist Party of Kazakhstan
The Communist Party of Kazakhstan ( kk, Қазақстан Коммунистік партиясы, ''Qazaqstan Kommunistık Partiasy'', QKP; russian: Коммунистическая партия Казахстана) is a banned political pa ...
in October 1991 at the 19th Congress of the party.
First Secretaries
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See also
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References
External links
Official website of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan
A military parade in 1980 in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan
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1936 establishments in the Soviet Union
1991 disestablishments in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
Communist parties in Kazakhstan
Communist parties in the Soviet Union
Formerly ruling communist parties
Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
Political parties disestablished in 1991
Political parties established in 1936