The Tatars of the Crimea : return to the homeland : studies and documents / Edward A. Allworth, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allworth, Edward A., editor.

Series:

Central Asia book series.

Central Asia book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crimean Tatars--Civil rights.

Crimean Tatars.

Crimean Tatars--Ethnic identity.

Human rights--Ukraine.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 p.)

Edition:

Second edition, revised and expanded.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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:

A model leader for Asia, Ismail Gaspirali / Alan W. Fisher

Ismail Bey Gasprinski (Gaspirali) : the discourse of modernism and the Russians / Edward J. Lazzerini

Symbols : the national anthem and patriotic songs by three poets / Seyit Ahmet Kirimca

Rituals : artistic, cultural, and social activity / Riza Gülüm

Structures : the importance of family - a personal memoir / Mübeyyin Batu Altan

Documents about forming a modern identity

The elders of the new national movement : recollections / Ayshe Seytmuratova

Mass exile, ethnocide, group derogation : anomaly or norm in Soviet nationality policies? / Edward A. Allworth

Mustafa Jemiloglu, his character and convictions / Ludmilla Alexeyeva

The Crimean Tatar drive for repatriation : some comparisons with other movements of dissent in the Soviet Union / Peter Reddaway

Documents about the ordeal of forced exile

The elusive homeland / Edward A. Allworth

Politics in and around Crimea : a difficult homecoming / Andrew Wilson

Crimean Tatar communities abroad / Nermin Eren

Documents about returning to Crimea.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-369) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822398691

0822398699

OCLC:

893680791