The Tatars of Crimea

The Tatars of Crimea

Return to the Homeland

  • Autor: Allworth, Edward A.
  • Editor: Duke University Press
  • Col·lecció: Central Asia book series
  • ISBN: 9780822319856
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822398691
  • Lloc de publicació:  Durham , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 1998
  • Mes: Febrer
  • Pàgines: 400
  • DDC: 323.1/194388047/0904
  • Idioma: Anglés
This new edition of Edward A. Allworth’s The Tatars of Crimea has been extensively updated. Five new chapters examine the situation of Crimean Tatars since the breakup of the USSR in 1991 and detail the continuing struggle of the Tatars to find peace and acceptance in a homeland.
Contributors to this volume—almost half of whom are Tatars—discuss the problematic results of the partial Tatar return to Crimea that began in the 1980s. This incomplete migration has left the group geographically split and has complicated their desire for stability as a people, whether in their own homeland or in the Central Asian diaspora. Those who have returned to the region on the Black Sea in Ukrayina (formerly Ukraine) have found themselves engulfed in a hostile political environment dominated by Russian residents attempting to stifle the resurgence of Crimean Tatar life. Specific essays address the current political situation in and around Crimea, recent elections, and promising developments in the culture, leadership, and movement toward unity among Crimean Tatars.
Beyond demonstrating the problems of one nationality caught in a fierce power struggle, The Tatars of Crimea offers an example of the challenges faced by all nationalities of the former Soviet Union who now contend with deteriorating economic and political conditions, flagrant discrimination against ethnic minorities, and the denial of civil and human rights common in many of the newly independent states.

Contributors. Ludmilla Alexeyeva, Edward A. Allworth, Mübeyyin Batu Altan, Nermin Eren, Alan W. Fisher, Riza Gülüm, Seyit Ahmet Kirimca, Edward Lazzerini, Peter Reddaway, Ayshe Seytmuratova, Andrew Wilson

  • Contents
  • Central Asia Book Series
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Renewing Self-Awareness / Edward A. Allworth
  • Part I. Forming a Modern Identity
    • Chapter 2. A Model Leader for Asia, Ismail Gaspirali / Alan W. Fisher
    • Chapter 3. Ismail Bey Gasprinskii (Gaspirali): The Discourse of Modernism and the Russians / Edward J. Lazzerini
    • Chapter 4. Symbols: The National Anthem and Patriotic Songs by Three Poets / Seyit Ahmet Kirimca
    • Chapter 5. Rituals: Artistic, Cultural, and Social Activity / Riza Gulum
    • Chapter 6. Structures: The Importance of Family - a Personal Memoir / Mubeyyin Batu Altan
    • Chapter 7. Documents about Forming a Modern Identity
  • Part II. The Ordeal of Forced Exile
    • Chapter 8. The Elders of the New National Movement: Recollections / Ayshe Seytmuratova
    • Chapter 9. Mass Exile, Ethnocide, Group Derogation: Anomaly or Norm in Soviet Nationality Policies? / Edward A. Allworth
    • Chapter 10. Mustafa Jemiloglu, His Character and Convictions / Ludmilla Alexeyeva
    • Chapter 11. The Crimean Tatar Drive for Repatriation: Some Comparisons with Other Movements of Dissent in the Soviet Union / Peter Reddaway
    • Chapter 12. Documents about the Ordeal of Forced Exile
  • Part III. Returning to Crimea
    • Chapter 13. The Elusive Homeland / Edward A. Allworth
    • Chapter 14. Politics in and around Crimea: A Difficult Homecoming / Andrew Wilson
    • Chapter 15. Crimean Tatar Communities Abroad / Nermin Eren
    • Chapter 16. Documents about Returning to Crimea
  • Bibliography of Recent Publications in English about Crimea
  • Notes on the Authors
  • Index

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