The Crimean Tatars' memory of deportation and Islam
Year: 2022

This chapter attempts to reveal the role played by Islam in the Crimean Tatars’ collective memory of their forebears’ 1944 deportation from Crimea. The author shows how this deportation, already a key topic in communicative memory, gradually became one of the fundamental themes of this people’s cultural memory as well. The chapter presents an analysis of the media dedicated to the politics of memory of the deportation that made this turn from communicative to cultural memory possible. It also sh