Making Russia Multicultural Kazan at Its Millennium and Beyond

@article{Graney2007MakingRM,
  title={Making Russia Multicultural Kazan at Its Millennium and Beyond},
  author={Katherine Graney},
  journal={Problems of Post-Communism},
  year={2007},
  volume={54},
  pages={17 - 27}
}
Putin may be more willing than imagined to buy into Tatarstan's bottom-up form of federalism, which emphasizes the culturally plural nature of the Russian Federation. 
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