Journal: The Slavonic and East European Review
Year: 2016

SEER, 94, 4, October 2016 764 Williams, Brian Glyn. The Crimean Tatars: From Soviet Genocide to Putin’s Conquest. Hurst & Company, London, 2015. xviii + 217 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. £20.00 (paperback). This is a timely book, given the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and subsequent campaign against Crimean Tatar rights. The Kremlin has been promoting the rival idea that ‘Crimea is as sacred to Russia as Jerusalem’s Temple Mount is to Judaism and Islam’, in which t