Foreword ix Preface xi Introduction xiii PART ONE EARLY HISTORY 1 The Origins of the Volga Tatars...... 3 2 The Bulgar State....... 10 3 The Mongol Conquest..... 17 4 The Kazan Khanate........ 24 PART TWO THE VOLGA TATARS AND THE RUSSIAN STATE 5 Annexation of the Kazan Khanate and Russian Policies Toward the Tatars..... 37 6 Reformism: A Re-evaluation of Religious Thought.......... 48 7 Reformism at Work: The Emergence of a Religious-Secular Symbiosis........... 65
8 Education............ 84
9 Tatar Jadids in Politics............ 104
PART THREE
THE VOLGA TATARS
AND THE SOVIET STATE
10 The Revolution: From Cultural Autonomy to the Tatar ASSR........ 125
11 National Communism and the Tatar ASSR Before World War II......... 142
12 Cultural Resilience and National Identity in the Post-World War II Period........ 157
Conclusion................ 177
Appendix
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index......... 111
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