Abstract
Even though the Communist youth organizations officially disappeared in Kazakhstan following the break-up of the Soviet Union, the Kazakhstani authorities have revived them under different names and for the sake of serving similar ideological objectives. Using the concept of ideological recycling, this chapter shows that the structure, symbols, and administration of the state-created youth organizations in Kazakhstan are very much similar to those that existed in the Soviet Union.
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Leninskii Komsomol Kazakhstana v faktah i tsifrah, 1921–1981, [The Lenin Komsomol of Kazakhstan in Facts and Numbers], Alma-Ata: Kazakhstan, 1981, p. 105, accessed 15 November 2018, available at http://meeting.nlrk.kz/result/ebook_387/index.html#ps, internet.
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This is why most communist members and leaders were recruited from the Komsomol organization.
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The Charter of the organization states, “A Member of Zhas Otan can become a Member of the Nur Otan Party at the Age of 18 Years Old”.
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Sharipova, D. (2019). Youth Organizations and State–Society Relations in Kazakhstan: The Durability of the Leninist Legacy. In: Caron, JF. (eds) Kazakhstan and the Soviet Legacy. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6693-2_7
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