Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic

Kazakhstan, 1936–1991. Draft, not yet reviewed

The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1936 to 1991. The Kazakh SSR was created on 5 December 1936 from the erstwhile Kazakh ASSR, which was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR. On 25 October 1990, the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR declared its sovereignty on its soil. The Kazakh SSR was renamed the Republic of Kazakhstan on 10 December 1991, which declared its independence six days later, as the last republic to secede from the USSR on 16 December 1991.

Seat of power: Almaty

No rulers documented for this era yet.

Culture

It was the most economically advanced of the central Asian Soviet Republics, having a significant base in mineral extraction and agriculture.
After Joseph Stalin ordered the forced collectivization of agriculture throughout the Soviet Union, Goloshchyokin ordered that Kazakhstan's largely nomadic population was to be settled in collectivized farms. This, alongside the disastrous agricultural and scientific policies of Trofim Lysenko, eventually culminated in the deadly Kazakh famine of 1930–1933 in Kazakhstan which killed between 1 and 2 million people.
On 19 February 1925, Filipp Goloshchyokin was appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party in the newly created Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic.

Picture

Almaty was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1991 during the Soviet era, and after independence until 1997.

Image: Dauren Nabijan, CC0, file

Sources

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