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Nation, Language, Islam. Tatarstan's Sovereignty Movement
A detailed academic treatise of the history of nationality in Tatarstan. The book demonstrates how state collapse and national revival influenced the divergence of worldviews among ex-Soviet people in Tatarstan, where a political movement for sovereignty (1986-2000) had significant social effects, most saliently, by increasing the domains where people speak the Tatar language and circulating ideas associated with Tatar culture. Also addresses the question of how Russian Muslims experience quotidian life in the post-Soviet period. The only book-length ethnography in English on Tatars, Russia’s second most populous nation, and also the largest Muslim community in the Federation, offers a major contribution to our understanding of how and why nations form and how and why they matter – and the limits of their influence, in the Tatar case.
- GenresHistoryNonfiction
471 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 20, 2012
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June 11, 2022
Helpful case study of nationality within the RF. It has a more contemporary focus, given the subject is the sovereignty movement, but it provides deeper cultural and historical details as needed. It takes particular care to describe human relationships, which I found useful.
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