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The main purpose of this article is to understand the historical breaks and changes in Chingiz Aitmatov’s views on Soviet working life and labor relations. His works on working life and labor relations will be analyzed by dividing them into two periods. His first works were written on the assumption that the promises of the Socialist Revolution for a new life were realized. Workers live a happy and prosperous life in harmony with the system and their environment. The problems of exploitation, stratification and social conflict have been resolved and the ontological security of the workers has been ensured. This view changes, acquiring a critical character in “Goodbye Gulsari” which belongs to the novels of the second period. The work questions the contradictions between the socialist worker and the socialist state; by demystifying the official discourses, it clarifies how the products and relations of collective farm workers are alienated from them in the planning and centralization processes. The detailed analysis of the novels “The White Ship”, “The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years” and “The Place of the Skull”, in which the author’s critical approach to working life and labor relations, written during the Soviet period, remains in the background of cultural, moral and ecological criticism, has been excluded from the scope of this study in order not to force the format of the article.

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