title: A History of Tatarstan: The Russian Yoke and the Vanishing Tatars by KeesBoterbloem. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023. xviii + 313 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978‐1‐66692‐684‐2
abstract: In this book, Kees Boterbloem attempts to tell the story of the Volga Tatars from the Middle Ages to the present.Fitting over one thousand years into three hundred pages would be a monumental task even for a specialist in Tatar or Volga-Ural history.A History of Tatarstan is organized chronologically.Part I establishes the book's raison d'tre and theoretical framework.Part II summarizes the history of the Tatarstan region from before the Mongol conquest to Muscovy's annexation of the Kazan Khana
journal: The Russian Review