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1. Kazakhstan during the growing crisis of the Soviet economic and socio-political system (1964 - 1985.)
The relative weakening of ideological pressure in the era of "developed socialism" awakening of national consciousness of Soviet ethnic groups, dissident. The first secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan Dinmuhammed Kunayev (1964-1986). The successes of Soviet Kazakhstan and the positive trends in science, education, culture and art. Creation of a new generation of Kazakh writers, poets, musicians: O. Suleimenov, A. Alimzhanova, M. Shakhanova, M. Magauin, A. Kekilbayev, S. Kaldajakova. The value of their work in preparing the national-cultural renaissance.
The growth defects of the administrative-command system. Saving super-centralized economy and the extensive nature of its development. Failures in reforming the economy. Further bureaucratization of social management areas. The growing role of Kazakhstan in the economic complex of the Union. The change in the social and demographic structure of population. Exacerbation of environmental problems, the national question. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979) and participation in the Afghan war in Kazakhstan. The stagnation of the level and quality of life. The problem of shortages of goods.
2. The policy of "perestroika" in Kazakhstan (1985-1991).
The April Plenum and politics, M.S. Gorbachev's "perestroika". The main stages of "perestroika" and their characteristics. The inability of the administrative-command system to reform: the growth of a systemic crisis. The collapse of the illusions about the possibility of democratization of social relations in a socialist system.
Attempts to create informal associations, from environmental and national-cultural movements for the first socio-political associations. Exacerbation of the systemic crisis on the eve of the collapse of the USSR. Exposure of the insolvency of the Soviet economic and socio-political model of development and self-determination of peoples.
