A History of Tatarstan: The Russian Yoke and the Vanishing Tatars by KeesBoterbloem. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023. xviii + 313 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐1‐66692‐684‐2
Journal: The Russian Review
Year: 2024

In this book, Kees Boterbloem attempts to tell the story of the Volga Tatars from the Middle Ages to the present.Fitting over one thousand years into three hundred pages would be a monumental task even for a specialist in Tatar or Volga-Ural history.A History of Tatarstan is organized chronologically.Part I establishes the book's raison d'tre and theoretical framework.Part II summarizes the history of the Tatarstan region from before the Mongol conquest to Muscovy's annexation of the Kazan Khana