title: Tatarzy Krymscy - naród czy mniejszość etniczna: w poszukiwaniu nowej drogi odrodzenia narodowego
abstract: The Crimean tatars – a nation or an ethnic minority: in search for a new way of national revivalThe Russian Empire, increasing its aggressive expansion to all sites of the world, conquered the Crimean Khanate in 1783. This Khanate was the only one of its kind link connecting the European (Christian) and Asian (Islamic) civilizations. It was the state of high multilateral culture with strong – in the beginning of the New Times – secularism trends and democratic bases of social and political life 
journal: Sprawy Narodowościowe Seria nowa