Crimean Tatars: Claiming the Homeland
Journal: transcript Verlag eBooks
Year: 2023

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine raised anew the issue of colonial nature of this war and intensified debates on decolonization of Ukraine and its history.Nonetheless, little has been done to discuss the history of the Crimea as of a Russian settler colony. 1 The history of Russian presence in Crimea cannot be comprehensive without considering its indigenous people, the Crimean Tatars, who ever since the annexation of the Crimean Khanate by the Russian Empire in 1783, had been the object