1st Edition
Nation, Language, Islam Tatarstan's Sovereignty Movement
By Helen M. Faller
Copyright 2011
348 Pages
by
Central European University Press
A detailed academic treatise of the history of nationality in Tatarstan. The book demonstrates how state collapse and national revival influenced the divergence of worldviews among ex-Soviet people in Tatarstan, where a political movement for sovereignty (1986-2000) had significant social effects, most saliently, by increasing the domains where people speak the Tatar language and circulating... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter 1 How Tatar Nation-builders Came to Be, Chapter 2 What Tatarstan Letters to the Editor (1990–1993) Reveal about the Unmaking of Soviet People, Chapter 3 Creating Soviet People: The Meanings of Alphabets, Chapter 4 Cultural Difference and Political Ideologies, Chapter 5 Repossessing Kazan, Chapter 6 Kazan in Black and White, Chapter 7 Mong and the National Reproduction of Collective Sorrow, Chapter 8 Words Apart, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Dr. Helen M. Faller is an Independent Scholar who lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with her daughter Bernadette. Her next research project is on Central Asian women, post-Soviet social change, and the practices of everyday life.
