CULTURE AS THE ESSENTIAL BASIS OF KAZAKHSTAN’S DEVELOPMENT MODEL

Abstract

This article examines some aspects of culture as the essential basis of the Kazakhstani development model. The attributes of Kazakhstan’s national definition are studied. In recent years, the issue of a national definition in Kazakhstan has been discussed more and more extensively. The search for a national idea is a certain ideal principle of personal identification. The need for more growth of Kazakhstan’s national unity is established and substantiated. The formulated idea of «unity in diversity» is the underlying ontological principle that unfolds the life of contemporary cultural and social structures in Kazakhstani society. We consider history today and see the close relationship between the past and the present. Historians and politicians are motivated, by the official direction taken in pursuing their own national ideas, to turn to the ideological legacy of the past. Today, we are witnessing a realistic manifestation of the ideas of the past in the context of Eurasian space, in the field of Central Asia.In current conditions, however, the concept of Eurasianism is much more actualized, and it is the only alternative to the challenge presented by the world’s development toward unipolarity. To step towards multipolarity, Kazakhstan supports the deepening of Eurasian unification.