Williams, Christopher (2011) Tatar nation building since 1991: Ethnic mobilisation in historical perspective. JEMIE - Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 10 (1). pp. 94-123. ISSN 1617-5247
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This study analyses the process of ethnic mobilization in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras and assesses the way in which history, memory and the treatment of the Volga Tatars by the Soviet state, especially under Lenin and Stalin, affected their long term desire for greater independence from Moscow. The central argument of this study is that Volga Tatar’s nation building was influenced by
changes introduced under Gorbachev and by the weaknesses of the post-Soviet state particularly during the Yeltsin era of the 1990s. The article assesses the strategies the President of Tatarstan and his advisors utilized during this period,especially after 1985, to successfully negotiate a bilateral treaty with Moscow in February 1994 granting Tatarstan greater autonomy and independence.
Within this framework, the article then provides a detailed analysis of the approach taken in Tatarstan to achieve this goal and to renew the treaty in October 2005, despite Putin’s recentralization policies from 2000-2008.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Russia, Tatarstan, federalism, sovereignty, separatism. |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Creative Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Susan Murray |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Mar 2014 09:46 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Dec 2024 14:31 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/279 |
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