The textbook is devoted to key issues of the prehistory of statehood of Tatarstan. It, based on the use of historiographic materials and modern research, consistently reveals the historical conditions and basic patterns of the emergence of the national question in the pre-Soviet ethnopolitical history of the Tatar people, as well as the content and nature of the ethnocultural and national movement among the Tatars, which determined the emergence of the statehood of Tatarstan. The textbook is intended for students of the Faculty of Law of Kazan State University. V.I. Ulyanov-Lenin. It will also be useful for everyone interested in the ethnopolitical history of the Tatar people.

Contents: Subject, interdisciplinary connections and methodology of the course on the history of statehood of Tatarstan. Subject, system and interdisciplinary connections of the course on the history of statehood of Tatarstan. Methodology of the course on the history of statehood of Tatarstan. Statehood of the Volga Bulgaria. The emergence and development of the Volga Bulgaria. Fundamentals of the state system and law and order of the Volga Bulgaria. Statehood of the Kazan Khanate. Social system of the Kazan Khanate. Fundamentals of the state system and law and order in the Kazan Khanate. Kazan region during the formation of a multinational state and the development of absolutism (second half of the XVI - XVIII centuries). Public administration of the Kazan region. Organization of feudal land tenure. Ethno-confessional factor and its role in the implementation of government ethnic policy in the Kazan region. Ethnosocial stratification and social status of the Kazan Tatars according to the legislation of the second half of the 16th-18th centuries. Fundamentals of legal life and private law relations Kazan Tatars. The national question and the movement for self-determination among the Tatars in the era of Russian autocracy. The nature and essence of the national question in the history of the Kazan Tatars. Religious enlightenment and Jadidism as stages of the cultural reform movement among the Tatars. The national democratic stage of development of the socio-political movement among the Tatars .The revolutionary events of 1917 and the development of the movement for self-determination among the Tatars on the eve of the formation of Soviet power in the Middle Volga region. The February bourgeois-democratic revolution and the movement for national-cultural self-determination among the Tatars. The national policy of the Bolsheviks and the solution to the question of the forms of national-state self-determination of the peoples of the Middle Volga region and the Urals.