CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Akanov, Arslan |
|---|---|
| Title | Control Comes First: Authoritarian Politics in Soviet Kazakhstan |
| Summary | The late Soviet era is considered to be a period of nationalization in the government of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. An increase in the number of Kazakhs who occupied top-level positions in the government and the Communist Party apparatus prompted scholars to assume that Dinmukhamed Kunaev, who was the leader of Kazakhstan between 1964 and 1986, carried out a ‘Kazakhification’ of the country. In fact, as this thesis aims to demonstrate, the upsurge in the number of Kazakhs in the ruling elite reflected a broader population trend. Through primary source analysis, this thesis shows that Kunaev did not spearhead the nationalization of the republican government. Instead, he managed to build a personal autocracy based on the support of his home region’s natives, who represented a clear majority in the positions of power by the end of Kunaev’s incumbency. |
| Supervisor | Bochsler, Daniel |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/akanov_arslan.pdf |
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