The Constitution of a Nationalist Deviation in the Soviet Union in the 1920s: The Tatars of Crimea and the Veliibrahimovshchina
Journal: Genèses
Year: 2012

A Soviet Socialist Republic of Crimea was proclaimed in the autumn of 1921 and soon tensions appeared between various actors over the orientation of national policy. This article examines the conflicts that developed within the Crimean Communist Party and how they helped to change the political and social order in the peninsula. It shows how the disputes that opposed individuals were initially defined, then redefined and criminalised, and gave rise to one of the political trials during the sprin