Fisher Alan W. The Crimean Tatars

Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1987. — 259 p. — ISBN: 0-8179-6662-5This volume is the most comprehensive survey of the Crimean Tatars to appear since V.D. Sirnov's late nineteenth-century account. Professor Fisher presents a detailed analysis of the culture and history of these people from the mid-fourteenth century to the present. The author clarifies and assesses the myriad problems inherent to a multinational sociey that comprises more than 100 non-Russian ethnic groups living within the borders of the Soviet Union. He discusses the resurgence of nationalist sentiment, the efforts of the Crimean Tatars and others to regain territorial rights lost during the Stalinist era, and the political impact these movements have on contemporary Soviet affairs.The Crimean Tatar Khanate
The Origins of the Crimean Tatar Khanate
Ottoman Hegemony in the Crimea
The Political System of the Crimean Khanate
Economic and Cultural Life in the Khanate
The Crimean Role in Eastern European Politics
The Crimean Tatars in Imperial Russia
Russian Interest in the Crimea
The Crimean Independent State and Russian Annexation
Reorganization of the Crimea
Russian Administration of the Crimea in the Nineteenth Century
The Crimean Tatar National Awakening
The Crimean Tatars and the USSR
The Russian Revolution and the Tatars
The Crimean ASSR (1921 — 1941)
The Crimean Tatars in World War II
The Deportation of the Crimean Tatars and Their Struggle for Rehabilitation
«The Right to Return»