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ЦЕЛИНА: ВЧЕРА, СЕГОДНЯ, ЗАВТРА

Bibliographic Description

Целина: вчера, сегодня, завтра. – Астана : Комплекс, 2004.

Publisher
Комплекс
Year of publication
2004
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Available to all

Description

Published in the year of the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the development of the Virgin and Fallow Lands in Kazakhstan, this book is unique in its factual content, its tone, and the democratic polyphony of the expert opinions and assessments of this epoch-making event of the second half of the 20th century voiced on its pages. The 208-page edition opens with the full text, published for the first time in book form, of the speech given by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, on 6 February 2004 in Astana at the ceremonial session devoted to this landmark anniversary. The book, prepared through the efforts of the team of authors from the national company "Kazinform" and published by the Almaty printing house "Kompleks," gathers exclusive materials, among them interviews with the key figures and direct witnesses of the events. It tells, for example, of the "clashes" between N. S. Khrushchev and the legendary chief agronomist of the Virgin Lands campaign, A. I. Barayev, over fundamental questions of developing the virgin lands, and of other "closed topics" that it was not customary to speak of aloud in Soviet times. The spirit of the era is eloquently conveyed by photographs from the Virgin Lands photo chronicle and by archival documents published for the first time - resolutions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan and of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR adopted during the Virgin Lands epic. In addition, this edition, with its practical and striking design, offers readers original materials telling of the post-Virgin-Lands life of the contemporary Kazakhstani aul. Excerpts are given from Kazinform's news chronicles for 2003-2004, vividly demonstrating the situation in the agriculture of the young sovereign republic, which holds the status of a country with a market economy.

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