Crimea: A History Neil Kent
Publisher: Hurst

Crimea is a strategically located region on the Black Sea with a complicated history. Krym, peninsula and autonomous Simferopol is the capital of the Crimean autonmous republic. It was created on October 18, 1921 as the Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic of the Russian SFSR. Alexander Wilson is a senior at Indiana University-Bloomington studying History, Business Management, Investment Banking, and Russian. Crimea is a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea and an autonomous Russian-speaking republic of Ukraine. Orlando Figes' Crimea is a powerful history of the Crimean War, the conflict that dominated the nineteenth century. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: Concerning the "return" of Crimea to Russia, very frankly, I judge it in conformity with history. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Underlying today's crisis of Russia's annexation of Crimea is a deeply complex history of competing claims. 1) Russia Gifts Crimea to Ukraine. The deported Crimean Tatars resettled mainly in Uzbekistan, in some areas of History. The Crimean War: A History - Kindle edition by Orlando Figes. The territory of Crimea was conquered and controlled many times throughout its history. In 1954 the Soviet Union transferred control of Crimea to Soviet Ukraine. The analyst lauds India, the world's largest democracy, for taking an autonomous stand by recognizing Moscow's legitimate interests in Crimea.