Russian Perspectives on Islam documents the encounter and evolving relationship between the secular/Orthodox state and the Islamic regions, groups, individuals, and ideologies on the territory of the former Soviet Union and neighboring countries. This set of unique materials illuminates the strategies implemented by the Soviet and Russian state to establish authority and legitimacy among predominantly Muslim populations in Central Asia, the Northern Caucasus and Siberia and to enhance Moscow’s influence internationally with nearby Muslim countries, including Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Turkey. The digital archive is designed to disseminate these documents to the widest possible scholarly community and general readership. Read more...
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Note au sujet de Djafer Seidamet, Président du Parlement Tatar de Crimée
Note about Djafer Seidamet, President of the Tartar Parliament Tatar Crimea
1929-02-01
Записка МИД Франции о Дж. Сейдамете
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France, Poland, and the Crimean Tatars' Struggle for Independence
Primary Sources: 1918-1937
Compiled by Salavat M. Iskhakov The history of Crimea and its indigenous population, the Crimean Tatars, has yet to be sufficiently studied, despite…
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The Rise of Islamic Insurgency (Teaching module)
This teaching module examines the case of the Basmachi movement as Islamic insurgency in Central Asia in the 1920s. Using the...