The article makes a historical analysis of the influence of political and ideological censorship that operated in Soviet Kazakhstan on literary creativity. The Communist Party system has made great efforts to use the spheres of art and literary creativity as a means of realizing its ideological interests. To this end, the ideological department of the party has become one of the main apparatus of power. The power structure of the Soviet Union required representatives of creativity and science to promote the political and economic achievements of the state. Soviet censorship was skeptical of national culture and history. Literary creativity was the first object of political and ideological censorship of the party. This is due to the fact that society's demand for literary works was very high.

The first task of the relevant authorities was to take control of this spiritual need of society. Representatives of literature sought to realize their works in accordance with the requirements of the political system. But there were also writers who tried to revive national consciousness and history. Their personal life faced different pressures. It is known that in the 1930s Kazakh writers were punished by open censorship of the authorities. In the 1960s and 1980s, the methods of censorship in literary creative life softened somewhat. This paved the way for the realization of works that convey national cultural values to the reader. In the late 1980s, Soviet censorship lost its essence due to changes in political and social conditions.