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More Than a Game: Football and Ethnic Contestation in Contemporary Iran

Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 34, Issue 4, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT This study examines a particular form of ethnic resentment, namely the use of sport as a medium for expressing repressed ethnic feelings. It focuses on how a sports club, going beyond mere entertainment and athletics, becomes a center for disseminating ethnic sentiments. Specifically, it explores the role of Tractor, a football club founded in
Ehsan Kashfi
wiley   +1 more source

The role of civil law scholars of Kazan University in the formation and development of the TASSR economy

Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2020
The influence of legal scholars of Kazan University on the formation and development of the economy of the Republic of Tatarstan was studied. It was revealed that Kazan University played a key role in the theoretical and ideological justification for ...
A.V. Mikhailov, S.B. Seletskaya, R.I. Sitdikova   +2 more
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Tatar nation building since 1991: Ethnic mobilisation in historical perspective’ [PDF]

, 2011
This study analyses the process of ethnic mobilization in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras and assesses the way in which history, memory and the treatment of the Volga Tatars by the Soviet state, especially under Lenin and Stalin, affected their long term
Williams, Christopher
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Bilingual Education in Tatarstan

Education & Self Development, 2023
The relevance of the problem of bilingual education in Tatarstan is explained by the lack of anthropological methods, techniques, means of mastering a second language in the practice of teaching, the lack of analysis of anthropological reasons for the negative development of bilingualism towards a mixed type.
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Playing the sycophant card: The logic and consequences of professing loyalty to the autocrat

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 1180-1195, July 2025.
Abstract Despite the centrality of the loyalty–competence framework in research on authoritarian politics, scholars have only focused on material aspects of what elites do in their service to the dictator. Yet nonmaterial aspects such as sycophantically praising the autocrat in speech—a common, everyday practice under authoritarianism, have been ...
Alexander Baturo, Nikita Khokhlov, Jakob Tolstrup   +2 more
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Shrinking autonomy for Tatarstan and Gagauzia: the perils of flexible institutional design [PDF]

, 2016
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Prina, Federica
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National in form, Putinist in content: minority institutions ‘outside politics’ [PDF]

, 2018
Over the past three decades, Russia has developed a set of institutions for the management of ethno-linguistic diversity based on the principle of ‘national cultural autonomy’.
Prina, Federica
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L’islam au Tatarstan aujourd’hui [PDF]

Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 2001
L’auteur, lui-même Tatar de Kazan, présente la situation de l’islam dans la République des Tatars de la Volga, le premier territoire musulman annexé par la Russie au XVIe siècle. Après un bref rappel de l’histoire de cette région (qui connut une brillante phase de modernisme, localement appelé « djadidisme », dès la fin du XVIIIe siècle), il décrit l ...
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When Everything Old Was New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post‐Soviet Buryatia

The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 443-461, July 2025.
Abstract Why greet your family in Buryat rather than Russian? What does it matter how many times you fold the dough of a meat dumpling? How should one celebrate a holiday? In early twenty‐first‐century Buryatia, the Buryat Buddhist New Year, Sagaalgan, emerged as an important domain within which such small practices were reified as expressive of Buryat
Kathryn E. Graber
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Study of Tatarstan villages of the Soviet period: problems and prospects

Историческая этнология, 2019
The article analyzes the current condition of settlements history in regional histo-riography. An attempt to combine a specific historical study of the history of villages and rural areas in the republic with source studies problems has been made.
Ilnara I. Khanipova
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