Education and Nation-Building in (Post)Soviet Crimea: Constructing Crimean Tatar Identity through Early Literacy Textbooks
Journal: Lehigh Preserve
Year: 2015

The annexation of the Crimea, a former Autonomous Republic of Ukraine, by the Russian Federation that took place in March 2014 has had profound implications for every sphere of life in the region. The heated debate around the legitimacy of the annexation has caused multiple discussions on the local and international levels about the nation-building policies used throughout history by the Soviet and Ukrainian states that had control of the peninsula. Assumptions have also been made concerning the