title: Crimea in a time of change: urban everyday life, 1954-1964
abstract: Many of the attitudes that culminated in the Crimean referendum of 16 March 2014 are deeply rooted in the vagaries of an exceptional decade of Soviet history, namely 1954-1964. Thus, an investigation of the Crimean Soviet-era past may provide keys to understanding the contemporary situation. A Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union of 19 February 1954 made the fateful order to separate the Crimean region from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), ap
journal: University of Canterbury Research Repository (University of Canterbury)