PUBLIC AND CULTURAL LIFE

OF KYRGYZSTAN (1945-1964)
 PLAN
• 1. Social life of the republic.
• 2. Education and science.
• 3. New attacks of totalitarism on culture.
• 4. Cultural life.
 1. SOCIAL LIFE OF THE REPUBLIC.

• Although the war left grave consequences, the people of Kyrgyzstan

began to restore the economy in a peaceful direction. The fate of former
prisoners of war was difficult.
• March 5, 1953 I. Stalin died. Thus ended an era.
• After coming to power N.S. Khrushchev begins the time of rehabilitation
of the repressed. The peoples who were forcibly resettled to Kyrgyzstan
during the war years returned to their native places.
 2. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE.

• After the war, there was a lack of personnel and material base in the educational
sphere. Despite all this, the education system continued to develop. For example,
in the 4th five-year plan, the state built 288 schools for 42.4 thousand students.
• In 1951, on the basis of the Frunze Pedagogical Institute (future KNU) was
formed. On December 20, 1954, the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR was
organized on the basis of a number of scientific institutions of the Kyrgyz branch
of the USSR Academy of Sciences. A well-known scientist, physician I.
Akhunbaev became its first president.
•Kyrgyz
State
University
ISA AKHUNBAEV
 3. NEW ATTACKS OF TOTALITARISM ON CULTURE.

• The totalitarian system sought to exercise control over all areas of public life,
including the spiritual sphere. Akyns, writers, artists, musicians were labeled on a
massive scale (“bourgeois nationalist”, “idealizer of the past”, etc.). T.
Samanchin, T. Baidzhiev and Z. Bektenov were expelled from the Academy of
Sciences of the Kyrgyz SSR and repressed. The epic "Manas" - was characterized
by the top leadership of the USSR as "religious propaganda and anti-people",
criticized and banned. The works of Moldo Kylych, Moldo Niyaz and Kalygul
were also completely banned.
 4. CULTURAL LIFE.

• In the 50-60s the artistic culture of Kyrgyzstan developed successfully. Its ranks
were replenished with talented akyns and writers, such as Ch. Aitmatov, U.
Abdukaimov, S. Eraliev, and others. Kyrgyz dramaturgy also rose to a new level.
On the stage of the Opera and Ballet Theater there were new operas. In the late
1950s, compulsory eight-year education was introduced. The quality of education
of teaching staff has improved. The state also took care of reducing child
mortality. Packages of measures to improve the health of children have been
developed.