National Movements and National Identity Among the Crimean Tatars (1905-1916) (Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage, V. 7)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: June 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9789004105096
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Nationalism; Social history; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Architecture; Middle East - General; History: World; Turkey; History; Interior Design - General; Ukraine; 20th century; Civil rights; Crimea; Crimean Tatars
Description: This volume dwells on the process of the formation of the modern national identity among the Crimean Tatars during the first decades of this century. One of the basic postulates of this study is that the national movements played a crucial and definitive role in this process. Therefore, the formation of national identity among the Crimean Tatars is traced and analyzed in the course of the successive national movements of the period.

Although the main focus of the study is on the period between 1905 and 1916, the subject-matter is complemented by a general portrayal of Crimean Tatar society during the first century of Russian rule over the Crimea and an analytical account of the two formative decades of Ismail Bey Gaspirali's reforms prior to 1905. The study devotes meticulous care in placing the subject within the context of the parallel processes of other Turkic and/or Muslim peoples.