Description: With implications for the war in Ukraine, a surprising history of the Crimean Tatars from the fifteenth century to the present day. The Crimean Tatars were the Turkic-speaking native peoples of Crimea who established a powerful khanate in the 1440s, which remained in power until 1783. In this, the first history in English of this khanate for over one hundred years, eminent scholar Donald Rayfield shows that this misunderstood and much-feared nation was, in fact, a flourishing state with a vibrant literary culture, religious tolerance, a sophisticated constitution, and a prosperous economy. Rayfield’s book describes the establishment of the khanate, its reign, and its eventual fall, concluding with a vivid portrayal of the ruthless suppression of the Tatars—first by Russia and then the Soviet Union—and the final, effectively genocidal, invasion under Vladimir Putin.
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Book Title: 'A Seditious and Sinister Tribe': The Crimean Tata
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Item Length: 5.8
Publication Year: 2024
Format: Hardback or Cased Book
Language: English
Item Height: 1.4
Author: Rayfield, Donald
Genre: Russia
Topic: History
Item Weight: 1.65
Item Width: 6.4
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
