Dispossession
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2015

Abstract This chapter examines the mass migration from Crimea of the Crimean Tatars as a result of the annexation of the Russian Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth century. It analyzes how the Orthodox Christian beliefs of the Russians clashed with the Muslim Crimean Tatars, especially with regard to landownership. The annexation not only paved the way for Russian landowners to confiscate the communal lands owned by the Crimean Tatars, they also demanded greater taxes and labor from the