title: Russian Empire - Tatar theater: The politics of culture in late Imperial Kazan.
abstract: This dissertation examines the ways in which Tatar intellectual discourse on the meaning of Tatar identity and the Tatars’ place within the Russian empire was embodied on the theatrical stage. It also explores the internal dynamics of early-twentieth-century Tatar society, and studies the divisions within the Tatar reform movement. My main protagonists are the iashliar, the second generation of Tatar reformers and innovators of Tatar theater, who, already educated in reform Muslim schools in Kaz
journal: Deep Blue (University of Michigan)