title: Resisting ethnic cleansing : Crimean Tatars, Crimea, and the Soviet Union, 1941-1991
abstract: “Resisting Ethnic Cleansing: Crimean Tatars Against and Within the Soviet Union, 1944-1991,” examines Stalin’s multifaceted ethnic cleansing of the Crimean Peninsula and how the region’s largest ethnic group, Crimean Tatars, created a decades-long protest movement to resist each aspect of Stalin’s policy. First, I argue that Stalin’s deportation and exile of Crimean Tatars amounted to a bureaucratic genocide: a Soviet iteration on state violence that used inefficiency, irresponsibility, confusio