Weaponizing Self-Determination in 1918: Crimea as "German Riviera" and Tatar National State
Journal: Kritika
Year: 2023

Weaponizing Self-Determination in 1918Crimea as "German Riviera" and Tatar National State Mikhail Akulov (bio) In November 1917, Der Neue Orient, the official organ of the German Intelligence Bureau for the East, published a piece in support of the national movements in revolutionary Russia. Along with the promotion of enfranchisement (Menschenrechte), the mobilization of the non-Russian peoples could, it hoped, engender geopolitical rearrangements altering for the better the course of events in