Kerstin S. Jobst is Professor for the Societies and Memory Cultures of Eastern Europe at the Institute for East European History at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests include the History of East Central and Eastern Europe, the Black Sea region, the Caucasus, the Russian Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy, as well as comparative empires and colonialism studies.

• Preface1. Introduction2. Crimea as a Space of Myths and Legends3. On Greeks, Scythians, and Others4. New Actors: Sarmatians and Others5. The Mithridatic Wars: Crimea under the Rule of Rome6. On Goths, Huns, the ‘Migration Period’ and Its Impacts on Crimea7. Crimea as a Place of Early Christianity8. Crimea between the Eastern Roman Empire, the Crimean Gothia, and the Khazar Empire9. Crimea between the Kievan Rus’, Byzantium, and Semi-Nomadic Groups from Eurasia10. On Cumans, Polovtsians, and Kipchaks11. The Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) and its Impact on Crimea12. Pax Mongolica, Trade, Slavery, and the ‘Black Death’13. The Principality of Theodoro and a Lithuanian Intermezzo14. The Crimean Khanate: The Beginnings15. The Establishment of the Crimean Khanate16. The Crimean Khanate: Ottoman Suzerainty and an Eastern European Equilibrium17. Slavery and the Topos of the Crimean Tatar Warrior18. The Nogays as a Factor in the Early Modern Crimean History19. The Cossacks as a Factor in the Early Modern Crimean History20. Internal Conditions in the Crimean Khanate21. In the Run-Up to the Annexation: The Strengthening of the Russian Empire, the ‘Greek Plan’, and the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca of 177422. An ‘Independent’ Crimean Khanate and the Russian Annexation, 1774-178323. The First Decades of Russian Rule in Crimea24. The Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Religious Crimea under Tsarist Rule: The Tatar Population and Gender Relations25. The Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Religious Crimea under Tsarist Rule: ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Inhabitants26. The Crimean War: A ‘Modern’ War?27. The Crimean War: The Developments on the Peninsula28. After the War: Crimea Between 1856 and 190529. The Crimean Tatar Population after the Crimean War30. The Revolution 1905 and Its Consequences in Crimea31. World War I and the Revolution in the Periphery: The Crimean Peninsula, 1917-192032. The Crimean Peninsula, 1920-194133. Crimea during World War II34. The Deportations 1944/45 and Their Background35. Crimea after World War II36. The Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Crimea as Part of Independent Ukraine37. Russian Again?! Crimea after the Second Annexation of 2014BibliographyIndex

In today’s intellectual climate, which is permeated with political manipulations of the past, [Kerstin S. Jobst’s] book stands apart for its commitment to academic integrity and its resistance to the politicization of contested history.