Аңдатпа
This given article looks at the experience of national building on the post-Soviet territory conditions after dissolution of the Soviet empire. And it became in terms of experience of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Under imperial experience of national development of the former Soviet republics in article following phenomena are as follows: First is the continuity of many elements of an ethnic course of Russian empire in the national policy of the Soviet Union. Secondly, circumstance, which dissolved the Soviet Union, became possible in many aspects because of opposition of its non-Russian ethnic groups to imperial character of the Soviet national policy, to consciousness of Russian ethnic groups, its leadership in social structure of the Soviet society.