Others were settled in less strategic positions where the Russians could more easily control them. While there was minor population dis4 Calcutta Statesman. May 4. 1955. p. 53. 5 Kolarz. op. cit.. p. 86. 6 Ibid.. p. 86. 7 Kolarz. op. cit.. p. 190. 8 Conquest. op. cit.. p. 91. placement since 1800. the second large wave of Tatar emigration followed the Crimean War. From 1859 to 1863. legal deportation involved about 150.000 Crimean Tatars. Thousands more were exiled illegally during the same period. After 1875 Russian authorities recognized the great economic disadvantage caused by Tatars leaving the country and curtailed the issue of passports. But this measure did not prevent another 18.000 from leaving the Crimea. The emigration of the Tatars did not stop until after the October revolution. The Crimean A.S.S.R. was established in October 1921. Tension developed in relations with Moscow during the 1920s when panTurkism fanned Crimean Tatar nationalism.
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