The financial situation of creative unions of Kazakhstan in the post-war years

Abstract

The article discusses the socio-material situation of the artistic intelligentsia and creative unions of Kazakhstan in the post-war years. The most active of the creative unions was the Union of Writers of the country, which did not have their own premises, not to mention the rest of the creative associations. The building of the Writers ‘Union, consisting of five or six small rooms, housed five blocks: two magazines, a literary fund, a copyright office, and all departments of the Writers’ Union. Even in the fiftieth, this issue was acute on the agenda. And the Union of Composers did not even have such premises. The house of composers was built only in 1969. This circumstance was also characteristic of the Union of Architects, Filmmakers, Journalists and Artists. The difficult social and material situation of the artistic intelligentsia of Kazakhstan was due to the lack of independent publishing houses, their own printing houses and a fair assessment of the work of the artistic intelligentsia. And also, it is shown the role of other factors affecting the socio-material status of the artistic intelligentsia.