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Blood of Others
Blood of Others offers a cultural history of Crimea and
the Black Sea region, one of Europe's most volatile flashpoints, by
chronicling the aftermath of Stalin's 1944 deportation of the
Crimean Tatars in four different literary traditions.
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Roads : a novel
\"When Nazi forces occupy the beautiful coastal city of Yalta, Crimea, everything changes. Eighteen-year-old Filip has few options; he is a prime candidate for forced labor in Germany. His hurried marriage to his childhood friend Galina might grant him reprieve, but the rules keep shifting. Galina's parents, branded as traitors for innocently doing business with the enemy, decide to volunteer in hopes of better placement. The work turns out to be horrific, but at least the family stays together. By winter 1945, Allied air raids destroy strategic sites; Dresden, a city of no military consequence, seems safe. The world knows Dresden's fate. Roads is the story of one family lucky enough to escape with their lives as the city burns behind them. But as the war ends, they are separated and their trials continue. Looking for safety in an alien land, they move toward one another with the help of refugee networks and pure chance. Along the way, they find new ways to live in a changed world -- new meanings for fidelity, grief, and love\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Crimea in War and Transformation
Crimea in War and Transformation examines the capacity of violence to permanently alter peoples and spaces.The war named for Crimea began as a border dispute between Russia and the Ottoman Empires in 1853, but transferred unexpectedly to Crimea in September 1854 after European Allies joined forces with the Sultan. In the course of one day, belligerent armies doubled the peninsula’s population and pressed the local population into labor. Within one month, ravenous men fell upon orchards like locusts, and slaughtered Crimean livestock. For more than one year, engineering brigades mowed down forests to build barracks. Both sides of the war used scorched earth tactics. At the apex of violence, desperate Russian officials scapegoated Crimea’s native Muslim population, accusing these and other civilians of hoarding food and collaborating with the enemy. Before humanitarian impulses prevailed, officials initiated a deadly deportation, forcing thousands of Tatars from their homes.
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Crimea in war and transformation
\"'Crimea in War and Transformation' describes the civilian experience of the Crimean War. War ruined lives, destroyed landscapes, devastated agriculture, and decimated industry. Less than a month into the year-long Allied siege of Sevastopol, a subsistence crisis exposed the folly of Russia's scorched earth tactics and weaknesses in military supply chains. Hungry soldiers and desperate officials scapegoated Crimea's native Muslim population, accusing them of hoarding food and collaborating with the enemy. Before humanitarian impulses prevailed, officials initiated a deadly population transfer. Unable to eke out survival in a hostile and war torn land, nearly 200,000 Crimean Tatars left their homeland. Drawing from a wide body of material, including hitherto untapped archives in Russia, Ukraine, and Crimea, this is the first book to examine the toll of war on Crimean civilians and landscapes from mobilization through recovery. It analyzes origins of Russia's 20th century military-civilian policy, and provides under-explored context for Russia's post-war social reforms. Kozelsky analyzes issues all-too-relevant across the globe today: ethnic cleansing, mass migration, refugees of war, environmental ruin and revivals of religious nationalism\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Kin majorities : identity and citizenship in Crimea and Moldova
Kin Majorities explores why communities like Crimea and Moldova engage with dual citizenship and how this intersects, or not, with identity. Analyzing data collected from Crimea and Moldova in 2012 and 2013, just before Russia's annexation of Crimea, Eleanor Knott provides a crucial window into Russian identification in a time of calm.
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The Conflict in Ukraine
Ukraine has long been a country rent by linguistic differences, ethnic strife and divided political loyalties. This book provides the crucial historical background for understanding the conflict in Ukraine. It also looks beyond the appearance of ethnic strife to the conflict's deeper causes, the clash of different political models and concepts of citizenship.
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The Crimean nexus : Putin's war and the clash of civilizations
How the West sleepwalked into another Cold War A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea's ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flash points in current international relations: the first occupation and annexation of one European nation's territory by another since World War II. Pleshakov illustrates how the proxy war unfolding in Ukraine is a clash of incompatible world views. To the U.S. and Europe, Ukraine is a country struggling for self-determination in the face of Russia's imperial nostalgia. To Russia, Ukraine is a \"sister nation,\" where NATO expansionism threatens its own borders. In Crimea itself, the native Tatars are Muslims who are vehemently opposed to Russian rule. Engagingly written and bracingly nonpartisan, Pleshakov's book explains the missteps made on all sides to provide a clear, even-handed account of a major international crisis.
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