How Sovietization Affected the Crimean Tatar Wedding

«A modern Tatar girl does not need an expensive dowry,» wrote Usein Bodaninsky about the Crimean Tatar wedding in the mid-20th century. Sovietization, political and socio-economic upheavals led to a crisis in handicraft production, which was developed in Crimea.

Based on the materials of the book «Collected Works of Usein Bodaninsky», Volume I.