Przemiany etniczne na Krymie - od inkorporacji do Rosji carskiej po aneksję przez Federację Rosyjską (1783-2014)
Ethnic changes in Crimea. From its incorporation into The Russian Empire to the annexation by the Russian Federation (1783-2014)

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the major population and ethnic changes in Crimea during a period that spans the peninsula's history as part of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, independent Ukraine and following its recent annexation by the Russian Federation. The study presents the most important factors driving this change and its consequences for the Crimean population. The Crimean ethnic landscape was formed by a number of pivotal and often tragic events, including: two waves of Tatar emigration in the second half of the 18th and the 19th centuries; the Russian civil war and subsequent repressions; two waves of hunger in the 1920s and 1930s, the Second World War, including the deportation of the Crimean Tatars and other ethnic groups in the 1940s; the mass return of the Crimean Tatars at the turn of the 1990s; and the Russian annexation of the peninsula. Statistics were taken from Russian censuses, starting with the first census of the Russian Empire in 1897 and ending with a census carried out by the Russian statistical office Rosstat after the annexation.

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