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Communist Party of Kazakhstan (Soviet Union)


FieldValue
nameCommunist Party of Kazakhstan
native_name
native_name_langkk
abbreviationQKP
colorcode
logoEmblem of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (1978–1991), Emblem of Kazakhstan (1991–1992).svg
leader1_titleFirst leader
leader1_nameLevon Mirzoyan
leader2_titleLast leader
leader2_nameNursultan Nazarbayev
foundation
dissolution
successorSocialist Party (de jure)
Communist Party (de facto)
ideologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism
countryKazakhstan
country2the Soviet Union
coloursRed
nationalCommunist Party of the Soviet Union

Communist Party (de facto) Marxism–Leninism

The Communist Party of Kazakhstan (QKP; , Qazaqstan Kommunistık Partiasy) was the ruling and sole legal political party in the Kazakh SSR.

Origin

The Communist Party of Kazakhstan was founded 1936 as the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Kazakhstan, when Kazakhstan was granted a Union Republic status within the Soviet Union. The Communist Party of Kazakhstan had been a branch of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) until the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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 was created on its basis. Nursultan Nazarbayev, chairman of the party, resigned after the failure of the August putsch in Moscow. Dissatisfied members of the old Communist Party recreated the Communist Party of Kazakhstan in October 1991 at the 19th Congress of the party.

First Secretaries

No.Chairman
(birth–death)Term of officePolitical partyRefPortraitNameTook officeLeft officeTime in officeCommunist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white"1Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white"2Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white"3Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white"4Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white"5Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white"6Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white"7Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white"8Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white"9Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white"10Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white"11Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white"12Communist Party of the Soviet Union}}; color:white"13
[[File:Levon Mirzoyan.jpg125px]]Levon Mirzoyan
Левон Мирзоян
(1897–1939)23 April 193723 May 1938Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Communist
(Bolsheviks)
Oversaw early famine relief and collectivization; arrested in 1938 during Great Purge and executed in February 1939.
[[File:Nikolai Aleksandrovich Skvortsov.jpg125px]]Nikolay Skvortsov
Николай Скворцов
(1899–1974)23 May 193823 July 1945Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Communist
(Bolsheviks)
Guided the republic through wartime mobilization relocating factories during World War II and post‑war reconstruction.
[[File:Emblem of the Kazakh SSR (1937-1978).svg125px]]Gennady Borkov
Геннадий Борков
(1905–1983)23 July 194522 June 1946Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Communist
(Bolsheviks)
Served briefly in the immediate post‑war period during demobilization; little else is documented about his short tenure.
[[File:Emblem of the Kazakh SSR (1937-1978).svg125px]]Zhumabay Shayakhmetov
Жұмабай Шаяхметов
(1902–1966)22 June 19466 February 1954Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Communist
(Bolsheviks)
First ethnic Kazakh in the post; removed in February 1954 under Khrushchev's reorganizations amid allegations of corruption.
[[File:Anefo 910-7476 Ponomanrenko, (cropped).jpg125px]]Panteleimon Ponomarenko
Пантелеймон Пономаренко
(1902–1984)6 February 19547 May 1955Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Communist
Transferred from Byelorussian SSR as a transitional figure after Stalin's death; served just over a year before being reassigned.
[[File:Леонид Брежнев (1949).jpg125px]]Leonid Brezhnev
Леонид Брежнев
(1906–1982)8 May 19556 March 1956Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Communist
Promoted from Second Secretary to lead Virgin Lands campaign and Baikonur development; recalled to Moscow in March 1956 after disappointing harvests.
[[File:Emblem of the Kazakh SSR (1937-1978).svg125px]]Ivan Yakovlev
Иван Яковлев
(1910–1999)6 March 195626 December 1957Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Communist
Elevated from Second to First Secretary during the Khrushchev Thaw; oversaw de‑Stalinization measures and defense‑industry conversion.
[[File:Emblem of the Kazakh SSR (1937-1978).svg125px]]Nikolai Belyaev
Николай Беляев
(1903–1966)26 December 195719 January 1960Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Communist
Noted for advancing agricultural and economic policies; dismissed in January 1960 due to a downturn in agricultural output and the harsh suppression of the 1959 Temirtau riots.
[[File:Dinmuhkamed Konayev.png125px]]Dinmukhamed Kunaev
Дінмұхамед Қонаев
(1912–1993)19 January 196026 December 1962Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Communist
[[File:Emblem of the Kazakh SSR (1937-1978).svg125px]]Ismail Yusupov
Ысмайыл Юсупов
(1914–2005)26 December 19627 December 1964Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Communist
Succeeded Kunaev amid Khrushchev's regional reshuffling; initiated the transfer of several South Kazakhstan regions to the Uzbek SSR and was later dismissed at Brezhnev's suggestion.
[[File:Dinmuhkamed Konayev.png125px]]Dinmukhamed Kunaev
Дінмұхамед Қонаев
(1912–1993)7 December 196416 December 1986Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Communist
After a brief hiatus (replaced in 1962), he returned to lead for over 22 years overseeing massive industrialization and former Virgin Lands efforts and was removed in December 1986 by Gorbachev, causing the Jeltoqsan protests.
[[File:Emblem of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (1978–1991), Emblem of Kazakhstan (1991–1992).svg125px]]Gennady Kolbin
Геннадий Колбин
(1927–1998)16 December 198622 June 1989Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Communist
Appointed by Gorbachev as an outsider with no prior work in Kazakhstan; his imposition sparked the Jeltoqsan protests.
[[File:Nazarbayev Inauguration 1991 (cropped).jpg125px]]Nursultan Nazarbayev
Нұрсұлтан Назарбаев
(1940–)22 June 198928 August 1991Communist Party of the Soviet Union}};"Communist
Last First Secretary; oversaw the exclusion of Article 6 (ending one‑party monopoly) on 24 October 1990 and the transition to the Presidency in April 1990 before office was abolished in September 1991.

References

References

  1. [https://www.nur.kz/878575-kommunisticheskuyu-partiyu-kazakhstana.html Коммунистическую партию Казахстана ликвидировали по решению суда]
  2. [https://online.zakon.kz/Document/?doc_id=1000133 Закон Казахской ССР от 24 апреля 1990 г. «Об учреждении поста Президента Казахской ССР и внесении изменений и дополнений в Конституцию (Основной Закон) Казахской ССР»]
  3. [https://www.garant.ru/products/ipo/prime/doc/10006113/ Постановление Конституционного Суда РФ от 30 ноября 1992 г. N 9-П]
  4. [https://web.archive.org/web/20211019104007/https://yeltsin.ru/day-by-day/1991/09/10/5633/ Компартии Казахстана дали шанс уйти красиво, и она его использовала]
  5. [https://web.archive.org/web/20211019144655/https://yeltsin.ru/day-by-day/1991/08/29/5141/ Назарбаев вышел из партии]
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