In the final days of World War II, Stalin ordered the deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar population, nearly 200,000 people. Beyond Memory offers the first ethnographic exploration of this event, as well as the 50 year movement for repatriation. Many of the Crimean Tatars have returned in a process that involves squatting on vacant land and self-immolation. Uehling asks how they became willing to die for their national collectivity. She provides a fine-grained analysis of how "memories," sentiments, and dreams of a homeland never seen came to be shared. Uehling suggests the second-generation has a surprisingly instrumental role to play. The way children correct and intervene in parental narratives, dissidents challenge interrogators, and speakers borrow and trade lines index this social aspect of memory.
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Greta Uehling is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania.
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The actions of states against their own people or sub-cultures within their own or conquered country has been the cause of more deaths, pain, suffering than most wars. All the more tragic because the victums have been the weakest members of society: women, children, the elderly.
This book talks about one such case where some 191,000 people were rounded up one night and were moved some 4,000 miles across the Soviet Union. For years no one knew why Stalin ordered this. The stated reason was for collaboration with the Germans. But this seemed unlikely. Only with the collapse of the Soviet Union has the information come about that they might have interferred with one of Stalin's plans to attack Turkey. This book is a well researched story of the movement as forced by the Government, and the gradual return of many of the remaining people to their ancestral homeland.
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In the popular Russian film about the famous icon painter, "Andrei Rubliov," we hear a shout and read the subtitle "The Tatars are coming! Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
krymskikh tatar, utopic imaginings, property reclamation, parental narratives, special settlers, female consultant, affective stance, intensive style, historic homeland, compact settlements, one consultant Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Crimean Tatars, Soviet Union, Central Asia, Musa Mahmut, World War, Mustafa Dzhemilev, Amet Khan, Azat Krym, Muslim Committees, Ayse Seytmuratova, Communist Party, Crimean Khanate, Torch Over Crimea, Central Committee, Crimean War, Rustem Eminov, Golden Horde, Ottoman Empire, Black Sea, Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Golden Age, Jan Palach, Reshat Dzhemilev, Supreme Soviet of Crimea, Third Reich New!
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In the popular Russian film about the famous icon painter, "Andrei Rubliov," we hear a shout and read the subtitle "The Tatars are coming! Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
krymskikh tatar, utopic imaginings, property reclamation, parental narratives, special settlers, female consultant, affective stance, intensive style, historic homeland, compact settlements, one consultant Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Crimean Tatars, Soviet Union, Central Asia, Musa Mahmut, World War, Mustafa Dzhemilev, Amet Khan, Azat Krym, Muslim Committees, Ayse Seytmuratova, Communist Party, Crimean Khanate, Torch Over Crimea, Central Committee, Crimean War, Rustem Eminov, Golden Horde, Ottoman Empire, Black Sea, Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Golden Age, Jan Palach, Reshat Dzhemilev, Supreme Soviet of Crimea, Third Reich New!
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- The Crimean Tatars (HOOVER INST PRESS PUBLICATION) by Alan W. Fisher on 14 pages
- Language and the Politics of Emotion (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction) by Catherine A. Lutz on 4 pages
- The Invention of Tradition (Canto) by Eric Hobsbawm on page 177, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory by Geoffrey Hartman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The New Europe by John London in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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