Topic 5. Kazakhstan and the Socialism (1946-1985)

5.1 Kazakhstan after the Great Patriotic War

• The social and economic situation of Kazakhstan after the war

• New ideological policies (Bekmakhanov’s case)

• The nuclear test site in Kazakhstan

5.2 Khrushchev’s “thaw” and Kazakhstan

• The development of virgin soils: achievements and consequences

• The Baikonur Kazakh Cosmodrome

• Social discontent in the 1950s

5.3 Kazakhstan during the period of stagnation

• The social and economic development of Kazakhstan

• Events in Tselinograd in 1979 (protests against the formation of the German Autonomous Republic in Kazakhstan)

• The escalation of ecological problems in Kazakhstan (the Aral catastrophe)