Bashkirs

The Soviet approach to national self-determination through ethnic-territorial state-building during the civil war was a problematic policy, for it was not always clear what constituted a national community. Linguistic and cultural similarities among Muslims of the Volga-Ural reg…

This dissertation examines the transformation of the Bashkir society from a nomadic and semi-nomadic society to a sedentary society under the Russian empire's control from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. In particular, it analyzes inter-ethnic relations and the …