The Choice of the Nation-Building Model in Post-Soviet Space: the case of Kazakhstan

Student: Perov Artem

Supervisor: Natalia Galetkina

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Political Science (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2016

This research paper is devoted to nation-building policy in Kazakhstan. The research is aimed at studying practical steps to construction a nation in the Republic of Kazakhstan and their comparison with the officially postulated principles of ethnic policy. In the theoretical part of the paper there is observation of various approaches to understanding of nationalism and nation-building, as well as a review of nation-building models in post-Soviet space. In the empirical part of the paper we analyze the official strategy of ethno-national policy and its aspects that point to practical steps in nation-building in Kazakhstan. As a result, it is concluded that the nation-building policy for the last 25 years has undergone changes and today we see a hybrid model that combines the elements of ethnic and civil nation-building, but with a large margin of ethnic part.

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