Editing Tatarstan (section)

=== 20th century ===
{{further|Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic|Idel-Ural State}}
During the [[Russian Civil War|Civil War]] of 1918–1920 Tatar nationalists attempted to establish an independent republic (the [[Idel-Ural State]], ''Idel'' being the name of the [[Volga]] in Tatar) along with the neighbouring [[Bashkirs]]. Initially supported by the [[Bolsheviks]], the state existed up until March 1918, when high-ranking members of its parliament were arrested by the Bolsheviks (who had turned on the state and denounced it as bourgeois) before the official declaration of its constitution. The Soviets later set up the [[Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic]], which was established on 27&nbsp;May 1920.<ref name="Established" /> The boundaries of the republic did not include a majority of the Volga Tatars. The [[Tatar Union of the Godless]] were persecuted in [[Joseph Stalin]]'s 1928 [[purge]]s.

[[File:Левое крыло Белой мечети.jpg|thumb|The left wing of the White Mosque]]
A [[1921–1922 Famine in Tatarstan|famine]] occurred in the [[Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic]] in 1921–1922 as a result of the policy of [[war communism]]. The famine deaths of between 500,000 and 2 million [[Volga Tatars|Tatars]] in the Tatar ASSR and in the [[Volga-Ural region]] in 1921–1922 was catastrophic as half of the [[Volga Tatar]] population in the [[USSR]] died.<ref name="zqvRo" />

Starting in the 1960s, schools opened in Tatarstan that taught Russian as an official [[second language]], as it was necessary in order to individually advance in the broader Soviet society. By the 1980s, few schools still taught the [[Tatar language]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Suleymanova |first=Dilyara |url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/2373856 |title=Pedagogies of culture: schooling and identity in post-Soviet Tatarstan, Russia |date=2020 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-3-030-27245-6 |series=Anthropological Studies of Education Ser |location=Cham |language=English}}</ref>