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During the Crimean War, Crimean Tatars were charged en masse with collaborating with the Allies. At the war's conclusion, nearly 200,000 Tatars left the peninsula to relocate in the Ottoman empire. Mara Kozelsky contributes to an understanding of this critical episode in the Crimean War by examining secret surveillance documents, a collection that records complex state attitudes toward Tatars from the Allied landing on the Crimean coast to the Treaty of Paris. These documents reveal that intelligence operations provided no evidence of a collective Tatar guilt and instead testified to the diversity of pressures on state policies toward subject populations on the front lines of battie. Shifting wartime conditions, religious tensions, and repeated crises at the front highlighted unresolved debates about religion and loyalty to the state. Some officials recommended deporting the Tatars, others encouraged their migration, and still others advocated on the Tatars' behalf.

In 1954, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred the Crimean peninsula from the Russian SFSR to the Ukraine to "consolidate the Russian people's boundless confidence in […] the Ukraine people." Though this was a personal tragedy for many Russians in Crimea, decades later it turned out to be an instrument of influence for post-Soviet governments that has helped to keep independent Ukraine within the Russian world. In 2001 58 per cent of the Crimean population were still ethnic Russians, and Sevastopol, the largest port in Crimea, is still the naval base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. But given that radical nationalist political forces in the Ukraine are opposed to Russia's role as an informal guarantor of the political, linguistic and cultural specifics of the peninsula, Russia should use more of its soft power to strengthen its influence in Crimea. (IFSH/Pll)

From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" comes the definitive account of the Crimean War, a forgotten war that shaped the modern age. Figes reconstructs the first full conflagration of modernity, a global industrialized struggle fought with unusual ferocity and incompetence

Die Verfasserin setzt sich mit den verschiedenen Facetten der Krimfrage auseinander, die ethnische Beziehungen, wirtschaftliche und soziale Faktoren, Probleme der politische Organisation sowie internationale und strategische Aspekte betreffen. Angesprochen werden mit diesem Problembündel die Situation der Krim-Tataren, die Abhängigkeit der Krim von ukrainischen Lieferungen und die Abhängigkeit der Ukraine von russischer Energie, die konstitutionelle Stellung der Krim in der Ukraine und die Kompetenzen des Parlaments und des Präsidenten der Krim sowie die Ansprüche russischer und ukrainischer Nationalisten in der Region. Die Krimfrage kann als typisch für postsowjetische Problemlagen angesehen werden, vor allem für das Verhältnis von zentrifugalen und zentripetalen Kräften, die Verbindung innen- und außenpolitischer Aspekte sowie das Verhältnis sozioökonomischer und politischer Entwicklungen. (BIOst-Wpt)