Jeltoqsan

The Jeltoqsan Kazakh or "December" riot of 1986 was a spontaneous nationwide revolt that took place in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan in response to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's dismissal of Dinmukhamed Konayev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan and an ethnic Kazakh, and the subsequent appointment of Gennady Kolbin, an outsider from the Russian Federation. Some sources cite Kolbin's nationality as Russian, others as Chuvash. The Almaty protests of 17-19 December 1986 were not only the first signs of the failure of Soviet nationality policy, but they also preceded five years of national turmoil that resulted in the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 25 December 1991.

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The Jeltoqsan Kazakh or "December" riot of 1986 was a spontaneous nationwide revolt that took place in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan in response to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's dismissal of Dinmukhamed Konayev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan and an ethnic Kazakh, and the subsequent appointment of Gennady Kolbin, an outsider from the Russian Federation. Some sources cite Kolbin's nationality as Russian, others as Chuvash. The Almaty protests of 17-19 December 1986 were not only the first signs of the failure of Soviet nationality policy, but they also preceded five years of national turmoil that resulted in the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 25 December 1991.