Dilyara Suleymanova Livres

Focusing on the ethnographic study of education in Tatarstan, the book examines the interplay of national identity and local culture amidst Russia's centralization efforts under Putin. It highlights how local communities strive to preserve minority languages and cultures within schools. The research reveals that while education serves as a tool for state transformation, it also becomes a site for local agency and resistance. Through detailed observations across various educational settings, the author illustrates the complexities of implementing centralized policies in a diverse cultural landscape.

In the beginning of the 1990s the nationalist movement has placed language issue on the top of political agenda in the Republic of Tatarstan. The Tatar language was made second official in Tatarstan along with Russian. This has paved way for the ambitious program of the Tatar language revitalization which was aimed at ensuring the vitality of the language and raising its social status. This work examines the policies of the Tatar language revitalization and analyzes the reasons for its successes and failures.