Nation, Language, Islam
Abstract
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, most saliently, by increasing the domains where people speak the Tatar language and circulating ideas associated with Tatar culture. Also addresses the question of how Russian Muslims experience quo...
Keywords
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 cultureISBN
9789639776845, 9786155053016Publisher
Central European University PressPublisher website
http://books.openedition.org/ceup/Publication date and place
2011Classification
Biography and non-fiction prose