A Double Dispossession: The Crimean Tatars After Russia's Ukrainian War

Abstract

Abstract.Genocide and genocidal political processes have been used by the Russian state for decades-if not centuries-as a technique of self-colonial rule intended to eliminate "dissident" ethnic identities. Within this context, the historical fate of the Crimean Tatars is surely a unique one. Despite Soviet obstructions, the Crimean Tatars eventually returned to their homeland in Crimea after suffering forced deportations and genocide at the hands of the Soviet government. Now, 70 years after their deportation and genocide by Stalin, the Crimean Tatars are still fighting for justice. Defined as an autonomous group in their own land under the Ukrainian government, the Tatars found themselves in an even more precarious position when they were forcibly transplanted back into Putin's Russia after the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea. In a Russian state that continues to resort to the deportation and the repression of "dissident" or otherwise politically suspect ethnic minorities, Crimean Tatars risk not only new repressions and injustices but a continuation of genocidal political and social repression. Keywords

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