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Proceedings of the First and Second All-Russia Congresses
of Communist Organizations of the Peoples of the East
Moscow, 1918 and 1919
This collection of documents represents the first full reproduction of the proceedings of the meetings of the two congresses of representatives of the…
Contributors: Salavat Iskhakov
The Soviet Regime's Interaction with Domestic Islam
The Bolshevik regime that came to power in Russia in November 1917 inherited several regions whose indigenous populations were predominantly Muslim.…
Contributors: Yaacov Ro'i
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Central Asian Memoirs of the Soviet Era
This project aims to significantly widen the spectrum of Central Asian voices in the historiography of Soviet Central Asia. While Central Asian…
Contributors: Artemy Kalinovsky (Temple University), Isaac Scarborough (Liverpool John Moores University), Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University), Vadim Staklo (George Mason University)
Military Mullahs
How the Activities of Full-Time Muslim Clergy in the Russian Army Were Organized Between 1914 and 1917 Read Introduction by N. Podpriatov
Contributors: Nikolai Podpriatov
1917 Constituent Assembly Elections
Contributors: Tatiana Kotyukova
National Delimitation in Central Asia
Introduction by Shoshana Keller These documents concern the national delimitation of the Central Asian republics in 1924 and 1929; two of them focus…
Contributors: Shoshana Keller
France, Poland, and the Crimean Tatars' Struggle for Independence
Primary Sources: 1918-1937
Compiled by Salavat M. Iskhakov The history of Crimea and its indigenous population, the Crimean Tatars, has yet to be sufficiently studied, despite…
Contributors: Salavat Iskhakov
Letters from Azerbaidzhani Public, Political
and Government Figures (1904-1937)
Compiled by Salavat M. Iskhakov This collection contains letters, previously unknown and unavailable, from the personal archives of a number of the…
Contributors: Salavat M. Iskhakov
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and Government Figures (1904-1937)
Islam and the Soviet State, 1917-1990
[Under construction]
A collection of documents related to the Soviet state policy toward Islam. It includes reports, resolutions, and letters of…
Contributors: Arapov, D. Yu.
1916 Insurrection in Turkestan
In the summer of 1916 a number of uprisings by Muslims roiled the Russian Empire's Central Asian possessions. Central Asians were rising up against…
Contributors: Tatiana V. Kotyukova
Religious Boards of Transcaucasian Muslims in the Russian Empire, 19-20th centuries.
An anthology of documents reflecting the process of Islam’s evolution in the Russian Empire, in particular its institutionalization in the…
Contributors: Anastasiya A. Ganich
Soviet Muslim Posters, 1918-1940
Visual propaganda played an enormous role in the history of the 20th century. In contrast to the 19th century, it was aimed not only at the educated…
Contributors: Vladimir Bobrovnikov, ed.
Muslims and the Civil War in Russia, 1917-1921
The documents in the set deal with the period of the Russian civil war in the former Russian Empire and the Muslim peoples’ attitude toward the…
Contributors: Salavat M. Iskhakov
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Teaching Materials
Formation of a Social Boundary Nation Building as Identity-Based Conflict The Rise of Islamic Insurgency Containment of Islamic Insurgency Prevention…
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1916 Insurrection in Turkestan
In the summer of 1916 a number of uprisings by Muslims roiled the Russian Empire's Central Asian possessions. Central Asians were rising up against…