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Accepted Paper:
Kazakhstan in the Soviet foreign policy: soft power
Didar Kassymova
(Ch. Valikhanov institute of history and ethnology)
Key words: Kazakh SSR, soft power, Kazakh culture, days of Kazakh SSR
Kazakhstan as one of the union Soviet republics was employed by the USSR regime to fulfill a number of objectives: 1) to sell the developing countries the model of successful socialist transformation for backward peoples and encourage their leaders to follow the USSR- led global coalition; 2) promote the image of benevolent patron for newly liberated from colonial control peoples; 3) demonstrate visible economic, political and cultural achievements of Central Asia republics through the Kazakhstan’s case.
For Kazakhstan participation in the Soviet foreign policy agenda had a number of positive moments that became a valuable asset and experience after gaining independence in 1991.
The paper would explore the cases of the Kazakhstan’s representation in the Soviet Union cultural organized events in France, Austria and Denmark through the soft power theory implications. The papers would highlight not only the soviet official representation of the officially permitted aspects of the Sovietized Kazakh culture in the socialist realism framework, but the hidden explicit agenda that the performers wanted to express.