Victim complex in the collective consciousness of the Crimean Tatar community of the city of Sevastopol

10.54398/1818510X_2022_4_70

Annotation

The relevance of the study is due to the need to ensure ethno-confessional harmony in the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. The aim of the study was to establish and classify the key patterns of victimization of the Crimean Tatars in the city of Sevastopol, to identify signs of the presence and consolidation of the victim complex, caused by the deportation of 1944, in the collective consciousness of representatives of this ethnic community. The victim complex in the study is considered as a set of psychological reactions that are realized in social manifestations, which arise as a result of the influence of traumatic historical contexts and socio-political conditions for the development of social, including ethnic, communities, as well as ideas about them, and form the victim's behavior in them as on individual as well as at the collective level. The study is based on the concept of phenomenological constructivism, constructivist structuralism and a coherent approach to ethnic identity. The empirical basis of the study was a series of in-depth problem-oriented unstructured interviews. The study was of a qualitative nature and its results cannot be extended to the ideas of the Crimean Tatar community of the city of Sevastopol as a whole, which requires additional quantitative research. The study revealed the potential for the development of interethnic tension in the region, signs of the readiness of the Crimean Tatar community of the city, when the appropriate conditions are formed, to change the role of the victim to the role of the persecutor and apply methods of positive discrimination of the majority to achieve their goals. It has been established that the efforts of the state authorities aimed at leveling the victim complex in the mass consciousness of the Crimean Tatars at the moment have not fully achieved their goals, which actualizes the need for constant work to maintain a constant balance in ensuring the needs and rights of the Crimean Tatars, the contacting ethnic groups and the state.

Keywords

• Great Patriotic War
• deportation
• repatriation
• Crimean Tatars
• ethnic groups in contact
• interethnic relations
• victimization
• victim complex
• Crimea
• Sevastopol
• patterns
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Contribution of the authors

Kosov G. V. – development of the research concept, substantiation of the purpose of the article, writing text, preliminary conclusions; Makovskaya D. V. – scientific guidance, conducting and processing indepth problem-oriented unstructured interviews, text revision, final conclusions.

Acknowledgments

the research was funded by RFBR and the government of Sevastopol, project number 20-411-920003.

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