2019, no.1. Refik Kurtseitov

Book Review: Nemenko A.V. Crimea 1941–1944. The reverse side of the war. Separate aspects of the occupation history of the Crimea. Simferopol: OOO Publishing House Dolya, 2018. 420 p., ill.

Refik Kurtseitov

(Research Institute of the Crimean Tatar Philology, History and Culture of the Crimean ethnic groups,
SBEEHE RC “Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University”)

Abstract. The article deals with the work of A. V. Nemenko, devoted to the period of occupation of the Crimea in 1941–1944 by the German-Romanian troops. The author analyzes the content of German, Romanian and Soviet archival sources related to the military actions on the peninsula, with the course of organization and conduct of the guerrilla war, the Nazi occupation system of governance and ethnic policy. By conducting a comparative analysis of various sources on the partisan movement, the author exposes the myth of the “Tatar issue”, created in the postwar period to justify the total deportation of the Crimean Tatars.

Keywords: Great Patriotic War, Crimea, military operations, occupation policy, military archives.

For citation: Kurtseitov R. J. Book Review: Nemenko A.V. Crimea 1941–1944. The reverse side of the war. Separate aspects of the occupation history of the Crimea. Simferopol:  OOO Publishing House Dolya, 2018. 420 p., ill.  Krymskoe istoricheskoe obozrenie=Crimean Historical Review. 2019, no. 1, pp.189-196.  DOI: 10.22378/kio.2019.1.189-196

About the author: Refik Dzhaferovich Kurtseitov – Cand. Sci. (Sociological sciences), historian, associate professor, head of the department of social and humanitarian disciplines, senior researcher at the department of history of the Research Institute of the Crimean Tatar philology, history and culture of ethnic groups of the Crimea, SBEEHE RC “Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University” ( 295015, Crimea, Simferopol, Uchebnyi lane, 8, Russian Federation); kurtseitov@mail.ru.