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Adding to the frustration, Professor of German Maria M. Tatar's Fairy Tales and Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society James L. Watson's Chinese Family are expected not to be offered next year...
...Professor of German Maria M. Tatar will lead Literature and Arts A-18. "Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood," during the spring semester. Tatar says the class will be unique because "it focuses on children's literature, a subject not tackled often at Harvard...
Muslim political aspirations have found a focus in the Islamic Renaissance Party, which held its founding congress in 1990 in the Russian city of Astrakhan, once the historic capital of a Muslim Tatar fiefdom. "Our party's goals are similar to those of the Iranian revolution," explains Moscow-based spokesman Vali-Akhmet Sadur. "We stand for tradition." Before the union broke apart, the party could operate openly only in Russia, but it now has chapters in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan that have emerged from the underground...
...strong while reform movements are splintered. Given the tragic history of Russia, it could hardly be otherwise. The Czars retained absolutism as a quasi-religious principle long after most other European nations had either dethroned or put constitutional limitations on their Kings. Almost three centuries of the so-called Tatar Yoke, which ended around 1480, effectively walled off the country from foreign influences, an isolation continued as a matter of policy by the Czars and later the commissars. In the late 16th century, Giles Fletcher the Elder, English ambassador to the czarist court, wrote that Russians were "kept from traveling...
...newest fad is for even more atomization: not just republics but pieces of republics and even single cities are proclaiming themselves sovereign. Within the Russian federation, the Chuvash, Buryat, Kalmyk, Tatar, Mari, Komi, Yakut, Karelian and Bashkir autonomous republics, each the homeland of a distinct ethnic group, have all called for some form of separatism. Districts like the Irkutsk region of Siberia have adopted declarations of "equality and independence," and the city of Nizhni-Novgorod has petitioned the federation for special status...