Pan-Turkism and Islam in Russia

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, [4], 345, [3]; 3 maps (1 double-page); fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "This book is the first comprehensive political and cultural history of the major Turkic groups of Russia, which together exceed twenty million in population and form the second largest linguistic unit in the Soviet Union. Professor Zenkovsky traces their history from its beginnings up to the 1920's, emphasizing the transitory period in the early twentieth century when secular political ideas began to dislodge traditional Islamic patterns of thought and social behavior" (jacket blurb).