The Liberation Movement Among Russia's Muslims, 1903-1914

FAIN: FT-13614-77

Edward James Lazzerini
Indiana University (Bloomington, IN 47405-7000)

To study the efforts of a significant segment of the middle-class and educated Muslim population in Russia from 1903 to the outbreak of World War I, to achieve for the Russian Islamic community liberation from two burdens: that of the past, and that of religious and cultural oppression. PI will examine the Muslim periodical press, literature and printed speeches.