Book review: Ethno-confessional policy of the Russian state with respect to the tatar-muslims in the Steppe region. А collection of documents and materials / comp., аuthor of the preface, notes D.Sh. Muftakhutdinova (Kazan: LLC PK Astor and Ya, 2020. 181 p.)
In a review of the collection of doctoral student D.Sh. Muftakhutdinova examines the features of the author's source study selection of a set of documents and materials related to the ethnoconfessional policy of the imperial power in relation to the non-Russian population of the Kazakhstan border area. It pays special attention to the source corpus of documents used by the author to illustrate the foreign policy of the tsarist administration in the Kazakhstan border area, as well as the Tatar cultural heritage in relation to the steppe peoples of the region. In addition, the review from a historiographic standpoint examines such problems as scientific relevance, knowledge, reliability and relevance of the collection's documentary corpus. At the same time, in order to strengthen the scientific argumentation of the author's position and founding the text content of D.Sh. Muftakhutdinova should have used the latest research on the stated problems, as well as provided the collection with biographical notes, conceptual and terminological comments, nominal and geographical indications.