This blessed land: Crimea and the Crimean Tatars
Journal: Canadian Slavonic Papers
Year: 2015

This blessed land: and the Crimean Tatars, by Paul Robert Magocsi, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2014, 152 pp., $24.95 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-772-75110-2This Blessed Land by Paul Robert Magocsi fills a notable gap in the English-language literature on Crimea. While the scope of the book is vast, beginning before the Common Era and ending in 2013, Magocsi succeeds in crafting a narrative that is both balanced and engaging. While one might initially be skeptical of such a broad undertaking, thi