The Crimean Tatars : from Soviet genocide to Putin's conquest /
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 th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 217 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-197) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190494735 0190494735 9780190494711 0190494719 |