Tatar center
The Kazan Tatar Center (TOZ) is a former student and teacher movement of the Kazan University . It quickly became a serious Tatar civil organization that was officially recognized by the Tatar government.
History and aim of the TOZ
With the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet Union , Tatar students and teachers at the Kazan University joined forces in June 1988 to form a student and teacher alliance, which was essentially based on the principles of " Jadidism " founded in the late 19th century . This alliance was called the "Tatar Social Center" and had its headquarters in Kazan. The chairman at the time was M. Milyukov from Kazan University. This alliance was quickly joined by writers and journalists, so that it was ultimately considered a “national opposition” to the Tatar Communist Party .
Under the influence of TOZ Tatar history from the "national aspect" has now been processed and thus the Tatar ASSR rehabilitated not only the "bourgeois nationalists" as Ismail Gasprinski and Aiah Ischaki but also Mir Sultan Galiyev . On October 10, 1989, the TOZ held a demonstration to commemorate the Russian conquest of the Kazan Khanate by the Russian state in 1552 for the first time; and the green flags of Islam reappeared among the Tatars.
In addition to the renewal of "jadidism", the TOZ also actively campaigned for environmental protection. It also prevented the construction of a nuclear power station near Neftekamsk. The TOZ represents equal rights for women in a modern modern Islam. It also advocated full equality for all ethnic and religious groups in the Tatar ASSR. The TOZ in particular demanded the publication of Chuvash newspapers in the ASSR. But the TOZ's "leadership role" recognized by the Tatar government was not shared by all Tatars. For example, the TOZ had to rely on the votes of other ethnic groups for elections.
It should be noted, however, that the TOZ, together with other civil movements of the time, oriented itself towards the larger context of Tatar history. The Tatars see themselves with the Bashkirs and Crimean Tatars as heirs to the Golden Horde .
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The Tatars in the neighboring republics of Bashkortostan and Chuvashia founded similar “popular movements” in 1988/89, which were strongly oriented towards the goals of the TOZ.
But with the emerging nationality conflict between the Bashkirs on the one hand and the Tatars on the other, numerous Tatars complained to the TOZ: The Bashkir government was putting pressure on them to declare themselves "Bashkirs" and that To support the Bashkir ASSR's striving for independence. The Tatars living there also support this wish. But they wanted this new state to be called "Bashkir-Tatar SSR". Because the official TOZ position was that the Bashkirs and Tatars are two nations of different origins.
In addition to the TOZ, there was also the so-called Bolgarian Movement ( Bolgar-i Cedid = "New Bolgar"), which had wanted to take a radically independent, nationalist path since 1989: According to their will, the Tatars should see themselves again as "heirs of the Volga Bulgarians ", which had nothing in common with the Mongols and their khanates . Above all, the Tatars of the Volga region remained “ ethnically pure ”. But this Bolgarian movement always formed only a small minority among the Tatars.
See also
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- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The "Eurasian Movement" of Russia
- ↑ a b c d e f Erhard Stölting: Eine Weltmacht breaks apart , p. 153
- ↑ a b Stölting: Weltmacht , p. 154
- ↑ a b Stölting: Weltmacht , p. 155
- ↑ a b Stölting: Weltmacht , p. 157
literature
- Erhard Stölting: A world power is breaking up. Nationalities and religions in the USSR , Eichborn Verlag 1990, ISBN 3-8218-1132-3