An Introductory Note to Gaziz Gubajdullin's History of Tatars and His Age

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In 1994 History of Tatars was published in Moscow. This is the abridged Russian translation of the mainwork of Gaziz Gubajdullin, who graduated Kazan University summa cum laude and for the first time among Tatarsbecame professor of his Alma Mater. Moreover, it is astonishing that only 500 copies of this book were printed.Everyone would like to know why such a unbelievable phenomenon could occur. Searching for the reason it has comeout, that he was brutally tortured and shot to death on charges of Pan-Turkism. Coincidentally, only 1000 copies wereprinted of the famed Outline of the History of Kazan Khanate published in 1923 in Kazan by Khudjakov, who, likeGaziz, was arrested by the hand of secret police, tortured cruelly, and shot to death as“an enemy of people”. The aimof this paper is only to know the background of the age through which they had to live.