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A History of Tatarstan: The Russian Yoke and the Vanishing Tatars
Author(s): Kees Boterbloem (Author)
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- Publication Date: October 10, 2023
- Language: English
- Print length: 332 pages
- ISBN-10: 1666926841
- ISBN-13: 9781666926842
Book Description
A History of Tatarstan: The Russian Yoke and the Vanishing Tatars surveys the history of the Tatar people living along the Volga river. It argues that the Volga Tatars were Russia’s first colonized people and after their subjugation in 1552, the Tatars have been continually mistreated by their Russian rulers, even when the nature of the Russian regime changed over time. For a long period the Tatars managed to evade overly deep Russian intrusion into their lives, after the middle of the 1850s Russian and Soviet authorities obliterated their traditional way of life. Despite efforts at restoring a measure of Tatar independence in the 1990s, russification has led to a marked fall in those identifying as Tatar in the Russian Federation pointing at the possibility of a disappearance altogether of the Volga Tatars.
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Review
“Kees Boterbloem’s sympathetic study provides the first comprehensive history of the Volga Tatars from their origins through to the present day, detailing how the Tatars have survived as a people in the face of the twin threats of Russification and modernization. A History of Tatarstan constitutes an important contribution to our understanding of the second largest national group in the modern Russian Federation.” ―Paul Robinson, University of Ottawa
About the Author
Kees Boterbloem is Professor of History at the University of South Florida, USA. He is the author of nine books on Russian, Soviet and World History, including A History of Russia and Its Empire (2nd edition, 2018), The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896-1948 (2004) and Life and Death under Stalin (1999). He was, from 2008 to 2018, editor of the journal The Historian.
