A History of Crimea

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Crimea as a Space of Myths and Legends
3. On Greeks, Scythians, and Others
4. New Actors: Sarmatians and Others
5. The Mithridatic Wars: Crimea under the Rule of Rome
6. On Goths, Huns, the 'Migration Period' and Its Impacts on Crimea
7. Crimea as a Place of Early Christianity
8. Crimea between the Eastern Roman Empire, the Crimean Gothia, and the Khazar Empire
9. Crimea between the Kievan Rus', Byzantium, and Semi-Nomadic Groups from Eurasia
10. On Cumans, Polovtsians, and Kipchaks
11. The Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) and its Impact on Crimea
12. Pax Mongolica, Trade, Slavery, and the 'Black Death'
13. The Principality of Theodoro and a Lithuanian Intermezzo
14. The Crimean Khanate: The Beginnings
15. The Establishment of the Crimean Khanate
16. The Crimean Khanate: Ottoman Suzerainty and an Eastern European Equilibrium
17. Slavery and the Topos of the Crimean Tatar Warrior
18. The Nogays as a Factor in the Early Modern Crimean History
19. The Cossacks as a Factor in the Early Modern Crimean History
20. Internal Conditions in the Crimean Khanate
21. In the Run-Up to the Annexation: The Strengthening of the Russian Empire, the 'Greek Plan', and the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca of 1774
22. An 'Independent' Crimean Khanate and the Russian Annexation, 1774-1783
23. The First Decades of Russian Rule in Crimea
24. The Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Religious Crimea under Tsarist Rule: The Tatar Population and Gender Relations
25. The Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Religious Crimea under Tsarist Rule: 'Old' and 'New' Inhabitants
26. The Crimean War: A 'Modern' War?
27. The Crimean War: The Developments on the Peninsula
28. After the War: Crimea Between 1856 and 1905
29. The Crimean Tatar Population after the Crimean War
30. The Revolution 1905 and Its Consequences in Crimea
31. World War I and the Revolution in the Periphery: The Crimean Peninsula, 1917-1920
32. The Crimean Peninsula, 1920-1941
33. Crimea during World War II
34. The Deportations 1944/45 and Their Background
35. Crimea after World War II
36. The Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Crimea as Part of Independent Ukraine
37. Russian Again?! Crimea after the Second Annexation of 2014
Bibliography
Index