Nation, Language, Islam

• Main Author: Helen M. Faller (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Central European University Press 2011
• Subjects: Biography & True Stories; Russian Federation; Tatar language; Russian Muslims; Kazan's ethnic history; poems; national writing; cultural difference; Tatar alphabet; political ideologies; sovereignty; nationalism; minority national cultures; Tatarstan; lyrics; post-Soviet period; Tatar national culture
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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, m...