2023. no 2. Refik Kurtseitov

Crimean ASSR as the realized right to self-determination
of the Crimean Tatar people in 1921–1945:
creation, ethno-cultural, socio-political processes

Refik Kurtseitov
Fevzi Yakubov Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University

Abstract. The article considers one of the most important periods of the Soviet history of the Crimean Tatar people. The process of realizing the right to self-determination in the form of the Soviet autonomous republic – the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic as part of the RSFSR. Purposeful actions of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Council of People’s Commissariat for Nationality of the RSFSR to prepare conditions for the declaration of autonomy of the Crimean Tatar people. The difficulties faced by the young republic in the initial period of its existence, land problems, the causes and consequences of the famine of 1921–1923. The implementation of the course on indigenization is Tatarization, as the purposeful actions of the state to involve the indigenous people in the management of autonomy, equalize their socio-economic situation, train personnel through the development of the system of general and professional education of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Keywords: People’s Commissariat, self-determination, Crimean Tatars, Crimean ASSR, rooting – Tatarization

For citation: Kurtseitov R.D. Crimean ASSR as a realized right to self-determination of the Crimean Tatar people in 1921–1945: creation, ethno-cultural, socio-political processes. Krymskoe istoricheskoe obozrenie=Crimean Historical Review. 2023, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 78–106. DOI: 10.22378/kio.2023.2.78-106 (In Russian)

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About the author: Refik J. Kurtseitov – Cand. Sci. (Sociology), Associate professor, Head of the Department of social and humanitarian disciplines; Senior Researcher of the Scientific Research Institute of the Crimean Tatar philology, history and culture of the Crimea ethnic groups, Fevzi Yakubov Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University (295015, Uchebny lane, 8, Simferopol, Russian Federation); kurtseitov@mail.ru