Developing kryashen identity: discussions around the "Kryashens issue" in 1917-1920

Abstract

The article analyzes the formation and evolution of the views of the Kryashen social and political figures of the 1917–1920s. on the place of Kryashen-Tatars in the polyethnic space of the Volga-Ural region. The reasons that led to the abandonment of the project for the creation of cultural and national autonomy for the Kryashens and their integration into the Tatar cultural, information and national space are given.

Keywords

• kryashens
• great russian revolution
• society of small peoples of the volga region
• kryashen department
• tassr