Creation of regulatory and legal foundations of sovereign Kazakhstan: historical discourse

Abstract

The article reveals the main stages of the historical path of the struggle of the Kazakh people for freedom and independence. Based on the documents of the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the political history of the late 1980s – early 1990s is characterized, the adoption of the Declaration «On the State Sovereignty of the Kazakh SSR» as the first act of constitutional significance in the modern national history, the nation–forming basis of the statehood of modern Kazakhstan.