Beyond Memory: The Crimean Tatars' Deportation and Return

by Greta Lynn Uehling

Book Overview

In the early morning hours of May 18, 1944 the Russian army, under orders from Stalin, deported the entire Crimean Tatar population from their historical homeland. Given only fifteen minutes to gather their belongings, they were herded into cattle cars bound for Soviet Central Asia. Although the official Soviet record was cleansed of this affair and the name of their ethnic group was erased from all records and official documents, Crimean Tatars did...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349527033
• ISBN13: 9781349527038
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"