Communist Party of Kazakhstan Қазақстан Коммунистік партиясы Qazaqstan Kommunistık Partiasy | |
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Abbreviation | QKP |
First leader | Levon Mirzoyan |
Last leader | Nursultan Nazarbayev |
Founded | 5 December 1936 |
Dissolved | 7 September 1991 |
Succeeded by |
Socialist Party (de jure) Communist Party (de facto) |
Ideology |
Communism Marxism–Leninism |
National affiliation | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Colours | Red |
The Communist Party of Kazakhstan (QKP; Kazakh: Қазақстан Коммунистік партиясы, Qazaqstan Kommunistık Partiasy; Russian: Коммунистическая партия Казахстана, romanized: Kommunisticheskaya partiya Kazakhstana) was the ruling and sole legal political party in the Kazakh SSR. [1]
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]
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.
No. | Picture | Name
(Birth–Death) |
Took office | Left office | Political party |
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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 (1903–1966) |
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 |