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[FOLKLORE OF THE REPRESSED] Skazki i legendy tatar Kryma [i.e. Folk Tales and Legends of Crimean Tatars] / Compiled by K. Useinov

[Simferopol]: Gosizdat Krym. ASSR, 1936. Item #1077

373, [3] pp.: ill. 18х13 cm. In original full-cloth with floral decoration. No dust jacket. Rubbed, text block weakened, with title double-leaf detached, tears of endpapers and frontispiece, otherwise very good and clean internally.
First edition. Rare. An introductory article by philologist Sergei Kotsubinskii (1909-1943).
Design of binding, endpapers, frontispiece, title and half-title pages, head- and tailpieces, initials for the most tales was produced by K. Muratov. Head- and tailpieces, initials for the tales #4, 6 were designed by B. Dzhepnarov. Illustrations were created by A. Varfolomeev and P. Tumanskii.
Texts were recorded by Kiazim Useinov (1886-1938) who graduated from Taurida University, taught and directed the Alupka Tatar school since 1923. Together with students, he looked for storytellers in the mountains of South Crimea, including Useinov’ parents. In 1934, the folklore brigade of Alupka Historical Museum (later the Museum Palace) joined his activity and all materials were published in this collection.
During collecting tales and legends Useinov was accused of being a nationalist. He was fired from the Alupka Tatar school, was arrested and executed in 1938. His name was crossed out from all publications of Crimean folk tales. This was the start of a wide detatarization campaign.
Among ethnic minorities of the USSR repressed and deported to inland territories, Crimean Tatars were one of the most affected ethnic groups. In 1944, Crimean Tatars were blamed for collaboration with Nazi Germany. They were exiled to regions of Soviet Central Asia, the Mari Republic and some other areas where they founded ‘specialized settlements’. A lot of Tatars who refused the deportations were executed by the authorities.

Worldcat shows copies located in Columbia, Harvard, Oregon, Stanford Universities and NYPL.

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