Communist Party of Kazakhstan (Soviet Union)

For the post-Soviet banned party, see Communist Party of Kazakhstan.

The Communist Party of Kazakhstan (QKP; Kazakh: Қазақстан Коммунистік партиясы, Qazaqstan Kommunistık Partiasy) was the ruling and sole legal political party in the Kazakh SSR.^[1]

Communist Party of Kazakhstan Қазақстан Коммунистік партиясы (Kazakh) Коммунистическая партия Казахстана (Russian)
Abbreviation	QKP
First leader	Levon Mirzoyan
Last leader	Nursultan Nazarbayev
Founded	5 December 1936; 87 years ago (1936-12-05)
Dissolved	7 September 1991; 33 years ago (1991-09-07)
Succeeded by	Socialist Party (de jure) Communist Party (de facto)
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
National affiliation	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Colours	Red
Politics of Kazakhstan Political parties Elections Politics of the Soviet Union Political parties Elections

Origin

The Communist Party of Kazakhstan was founded 1936, 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.^[2]

Post-Soviet restructuring

The 18th Congress of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, held on September 7, 1991, decided to dissolve the party.^[3] The Socialist Party was created on its basis.^[4][5] Nursultan Nazarbayev, chairman of the party, resigned after the failure of the August putsch in Moscow.^[6] 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.	Picture	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Political party
First Secretary
1		Levon Mirzoyan (1897–1939)	5 December 1936	3 May 1938	QKP/CPSU
2		Nikolay Skvortsov (1899–1974)	3 May 1938	14 September 1945	QKP/CPSU
3		Zhumabay Shayakhmetov (1902–1966)	14 September 1945	6 March 1954	QKP/CPSU
4		Panteleimon Ponomarenko (1902–1984)	6 March 1954	8 May 1955	QKP/CPSU
5		Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982)	8 May 1955	6 March 1956	QKP/CPSU
6		Ivan Yakovlev (1910–1999)	6 March 1956	26 December 1957	QKP/CPSU
7		Nikolay Belyaev (1903–1966)	26 December 1957	19 January 1960	QKP/CPSU
8		Dinmukhamed Kunaev (1912–1993)	19 January 1960	26 December 1962	QKP/CPSU
9		Ismail Yusupov (1914–2005)	26 December 1962	7 December 1964	QKP/CPSU
10		Dinmukhamed Kunaev (1912–1993)	7 December 1964	16 December 1986	QKP/CPSU
11		Gennady Kolbin (1927–1998)	16 December 1986	22 June 1989	QKP/CPSU
12		Nursultan Nazarbayev (born 1940)	22 June 1989	28 August 1991	QKP/CPSU

See also

• Alma-Ata Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan

References

1. Коммунистическую партию Казахстана ликвидировали по решению суда
2. 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. Постановление Конституционного Суда РФ от 30 ноября 1992 г. N 9-П
4. Компартии Казахстана дали шанс уйти красиво, и она его использовала
5. Ro'i, Yaacov (2004). Democracy and Pluralism in Muslim Eurasia. Frank Cass. p. 157. ISBN 9781135775766.
6. Назарбаев вышел из партии

External links

• Official website of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan Archived 17 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine
• A military parade in 1980 in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan