On the Activity of Bodies of National Self-Government of the Crimean Tatar People in 1919 and the Problem of Dating the Crimean Tatar Revolution
Journal: Ukrainian Studies
Year: 2019

The article discusses the concept of the Crimean Tatar Revolution, which began in 1917; the problem of determining its upper chronological boundary; and the activities of the Crimean Tatar national authorities in 1919. As a result of the Russian Empire’s policy, in the early 20th century the Crimean Tatar people faced dramatic challenges in the sociopolitical, socioeconomic and ethnodemographic spheres: in their historical homeland, in Crimea, they became a repressed minority, threatened by degr