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He mentions Tatars of Kazan or Tatars of Crimea in such important tracts as his "Russian-Oriental Relations" (Russkoe vostochnoe soglashenie, 1896), but not "Crimean Tatars."
"No matter how well you do on your exams, we will not accept you."
When I asked why, Shtrakhov said nothing. I had to answer the ques-tion myself: "I understand why you don't want to admit me to the school of
history; it's because I'm a Crimean Tatar?"
Partly as a reaction to this situation, many Crimean Tatars preferred the use of Russian to a Central Asian tongue. Russian offered broader international communication than did a local medium and neutralized the assimilatory threat of the Central Asian languages. Observers have often noticed that Crimean Tatars born after 1942 seem most at home speaking and writing Russian, and some understandably lack a perfect control of their own language.
Much earlier, Qipchaq horsemen roaming the strip of territory just north of the Black Sea at the edge of the huge Desht-i Qipchaq had ridden down across the narrow isthmus to penetrate into the peninsula known as Tauric Chersonese in the ancient and early medieval world. Later, as the main force of troops under Chinggis Khan's commanders, those horsemen in 1223 did drive all the way to Sudaq, on the southeast coast of the peninsula, and withdrew in the same year.
Internal struggles among the Crimean Tatar ruling elite and the several Russian invasions during the independence period (1774-83) prompted the beginning of Crimean Tatar migrations, which took the form of exile, limited in scope and number. Deposed Khans, religious officials, Mirzas (high-ranking members of clans)
Paradoxically, a decade and a half later, in a speech delivered on 25 November 1936 to the Eighth All-Union Congress of Soviets, Joseph Stalin did imply, perhaps inadvertently, that the ACSSR took its name from the Crimean Tatars, although Soviet politicians normally rejected that notion vehemently. In that instance, Stalin meant to quash any dreams that Crimean Tatars might have cherished about elevating their namesake administrative-territorial unit to the level of union republic (or Soviet Socialist Republic, SSR)