Imagining Crimean Tatar History since 2014: Indigenous Rights, Russian Recolonisation and the New Ukrainian Narrative of Cooperation

This article examines competing Crimean Tatar, Russian and Ukrainian views of Tatar history as they have developed since the annexation Crimea in 2014, via an examination popular publistika. writing insists on core principle indigenous rights. In order to marginalise this discourse, historiography adopts a neocolonial settler framing mythology ‘ancient Russian’ Crimea, much it derived from earlier Tsarist (late nineteenth century) Soviet (1950s) historiography. Ukraine generally rather neglected issue before but new Tatar–Cossack cooperation parallel state-building has emerged.