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Rory Finnin on How Ukraine’s Crimean Tatars Contributed to the Idea of Ukraine as a Multiethnic Homeland
May 17, 2022

Rory Finnin (HI ’06; Ph.D. Slavic, ’10; Associate Professor of Ukrainian Studies, University of Cambridge) writes in The Atlantic about how the Crimean Tatars, deported from Ukraine by Stalin in May 1944, helped shape Ukraine’s sense of self and advance the idea of Ukraine as a multiethnic, multiconfessional, multilingual country—the idea of Ukraine as a homeland of homelands (May 17, 2022).

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