How Did The Crimean Tatars: A Figurative Power?

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After the Bolshevik overthrow of Tsarist Russia and the October Revolution in 1917, the Crimean region and the Crimean Tatars were eventually granted their own Socialist republic, the Crimean ASSR. The creation of the Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic allowed for the Crimean Tatars to have a sense of power, as they had their own republic. Yet, as under Tsarist rule, the Crimean Tatars soon found that this power was all for naught. The Soviet government, as with all of the Socialist Soviet Republics of the USSR, took control of everything, acting by its own hand and not by the will of the workers. Thus, the power each republic had was truly a figurative power. The Crimean Tatars thought that they had finally achieved a power to live

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