Rethinking Transfers of Power and Public Protest in Kazakhstan, 1959–1989

Nari Shelekpayev

Europe-Asia Studies, 2022, vol. 74, issue 5, 857-871

Abstract: This article attempts to reconstruct and reconnect the history of transfers of power and mass protests in Kazakhstan since 1959. The investigation focuses on two events, the uprising in Temirtau in 1959 and the so-called December events (referred to as ‘Zheltoqsan’) in Almaty and other cities in Kazakhstan in 1986. In doing so, this article does not intend to simply set the two episodes side by side to discuss their similarities and differences. Rather, it aims to explore the common dynamics that influenced and, to a certain extent, shaped Kazakhstan as a polity in the second half of the twentieth century.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2021.1990213

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