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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154321603321

Autore

Williams Brian Glyn

Titolo

The Crimean Tatars : from Soviet genocide to Putin's conquest

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-19-049473-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Disciplina

947/.00494388

Soggetti

Crimean Tatars - History

Russia & Former Soviet Republics

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

Crimea (Ukraine) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The pearl in the tsar's crown -- Dispossession: the loss of the Crimean homeland -- Dar al Harb: the nineteenth-century Crimean Tatar migrations to the Ottoman Empire -- Vatan: the construction of the Crimean fatherland -- Soviet homeland: the nationalization of the Crimean Tatar identity in the USSR -- Surgun: the Crimean Tatar exile in Central Asia -- Return: the Crimean Tatar migrations from Central Asia to the Crimean Peninsula.

Sommario/riassunto

Taking as its starting point the 1783 Russian conquest of the independent Tatar state known as the Crimean Khanate, this book explains how the peninsula's native population, with ethnic roots among the Goths, Kipchak Turks, and Mongols, was scattered across the Ottoman Empire. It also traces their later emigration and the radical transformation of this conservative tribal-religious group into a modern, politically mobilized, secular nation under Soviet rule.