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Tatarstan's Autonomy within Putin's Russia Minority Elites, Ethnic Mobilization, and Sovereignty
By Deniz Dinç
Copyright 2022
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores how the Volga Tatars, the largest ethnic minority within the Russian Federation, a Muslim minority, achieved a great deal of autonomy for Tatarstan in the years 1988 to 1992, but then lost this autonomy gradually over the course of the Putin era. It sets the issue in context, tracing the history of the Volga Tatars, the descendants of the Golden Horde whose Khans exercised... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Political History of the Volga Tatars: From the Medieval Ages to the End of Soviet Modernization 3. Institutional Legacy of the Tsarist and Soviet Nationality Policies 4. The Rise and Fall of Ethnic Mobilization in Tatarstan 5. The Rise and Fall of Sovereignty in Tatarstan: From Yeltsin’s to Putin’s Russia (1990-2020) 6. Conclusion
Biography
Deniz Dinç completed his doctorate at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
