The borderland thesis: the east
Journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks
Year: 2015

The renewed campaign against the national opposition among Muslims in the second half of the 1920s was yet another skein of plots that Stalin wove entangling internal enemies and foreign governments. He was increasingly concerned by the persistence of a Muslim “religious movement” based on the schools and the economic influence of the mullahs. But he was still cautious about launching a massive anti-religious campaign against Islam. In secret, however, in December 1927 Sultan-Galiev was arrested