Roma Voices in History: A Sourcebook

Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Genesis of the Roma Emancipation
	1.1 The Austro-Hungarian Empire
		1.1.1 The Gypsy Voivodina
			1.1.1.1 János Kaldarás and Mihaly Szava
			1.1.1.2 The two Gypsy Chieftains
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		1.1.2 The Gypsy Congress in Kisfalu
			1.1.2.1 The Gypsy Congress
			1.1.2.2 The Gypsy Day
			1.1.2.3 The Times Newspaper
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		1.1.3 The Letter of Raphael to Emperor Francis-Joseph
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		1.1.4 An Association of Gypsies
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	1.2 The Ottoman Empire
		1.2.1 A Letter to the Editor of the Macedonia Newspaper
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		1.2.2 The Guild Holy Days
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		1.2.3 The Petition from Xanthi
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	1.3 The Russian Empire
		1.3.1 The Sorochyntsi Uprising
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		Summarising Comments
Chapter 2. Bulgaria
	2.1 The Struggle for Suffrage
		2.1.1 The Congress of the Gypsies in Bulgaria
		2.1.2 The Gypsy Congress
		2.1.3 The Gypsy Congress in Sofia
		2.1.4 The Gypsy Congress – The First Meeting
		2.1.5 The Gypsy Congress – The Second Meeting
		2.1.6 A Telegram from the Gypsies to the Royal Prince
		2.1.7 The Gypsy Movement
		2.1.8 Dr. Marko Markov in Plovdiv
		2.1.9 The Gypsy Meeting in Varna
		2.1.10 A Gypsy Protest
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	2.2 Local Organisations
		2.2.1 The Statute of the Egyptian Nationality in the Town of Vidin
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	2.3 National Organisations
		2.3.1 The Statute of the Organisation ‘Istikbal – Future’
		2.3.2 The Minutes of the General Constitutive Meeting of the Mohammedan-Gypsy Union
		2.3.3 The Statute of the Mohammedan-Gypsy Union
		2.3.4 The Application from the Mohammedan-Gypsy Union (April)
		2.3.5 The Application from the Mohammedan-Gypsy Union (June)
		2.3.6 Opinion
		2.3.7 Acknowledgement
		2.3.8 A Letter to Police Directorate
		2.3.9 The Statute of the Organisation ‘Ekipe’
		2.3.10 The Memoirs of Shakir Pashov (Part 1)
		Comments
	2.4 Evangelical Churches
		2.4.1 The Gypsy Evangelical Baptist Church
		2.4.2 The Gospel for All
		2.4.3 The Stolen Gospel
		2.4.4 News
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	2.5 Socio-Political Struggles
		2.5.1 The Memoirs of Shakir Pashov (Part 2)
		2.5.2 The Autobiography by Shakir Pashov
		2.5.3 The Memory of Vasil Chakmakov
		Comments
		Summarising Comments
Chapter 3. Yugoslavia
	3.1 Organisations
		3.1.1 The First Serbian Gypsy Zadruga for Mutual Aid in Sickness and Death
			3.1.1.1 The Gypsy Movement
			3.1.1.2 The Membership Card
			3.1.1.3 Celebration on Saint Bibija
			3.1.1.4 The Belgrade Gypsies Are Building a House of Culture and Civilisation
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		3.1.2 The Club of the Belgrade Serbian Gypsies
			3.1.2.1 The Day of Aunt Bibija
			3.1.2.2 A Telegram to King Peter II
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		3.1.3 The Association of the Belgrade Gypsies Worshippers of Bibija (Tetkica)
			3.1.3.1 The Statute of Association of Belgrade Gypsies Worshippers of Bibija (Tetkica)
			3.1.3.2 The Belgrade Gypsies Held Their Assembly
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		3.1.4 An Educational Club of the Yugoslav Gypsy Youth
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	3.2 Civil rights and political participation
		3.2.1 The Gypsies Want Their Representative in the Parliament
		3.2.2 The Protest Rally of the Belgrade Gypsies
		3.2.3 Political Party Participation
			3.2.3.1 The Gypsy Party is Being Set up
			3.2.3.2 The Gypsy Electoral List in Valjevo District
		3.2.4 The Višegrad Gypsies Have Built a House of Education
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	3.3 Visions and Activism
		3.3.1 Our First Word
		3.3.2 Romano Lil
		3.3.3 Midday Pictures of Our First Gypsy Journalist
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Chapter 4. Greece
	4.1 The Rental Agreement
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	4.2 The Struggle in the Village
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	4.3 The Statute of the Panhellenic Cultural Association of the Greek Gypsies
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	Additional Comments
Chapter 5. Turkey
	5.1 Petitions
		5.1.1 A Telegram from Gypsies from Drama
		5.1.2 A Telegram from Gypsies from Kavala
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	5.2 The Tobacco Workers
		5.2.1 Emin Atılal
		5.2.2 Zehra Kosova
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		5.2.3 An Obituary for Zehra Kosova
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	5.3 Media Testimonials
		5.3.1 May Day
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		5.3.2 The Trial of the Communists
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	5.4 Training in the USSR
		5.4.1 Remzi Salih Mustafa
		5.4.2 The Opinion Report
		5.4.3 The Autobiography
		5.4.4 References
		5.4.5 The Questionnaire
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		5.4.6 Mustafa Mehmet (Alekber Ağaoğlu, Petko)
		5.4.7 The Autobiography (1)
		5.4.8 The Questionary Form
		5.4.9 Autobiography (2)
		5.4.10 Reference
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	5.5 Kakava Day
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Chapter 6. Romania
	6.1 First Steps
		6.1.1 A Manifesto of the Gypsies
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		6.1.2 Gypsy Assemblies
			a) The Gypsy Assembly of Ucea de Jos
			b) The Gypsy Assembly in Moşna
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		6.1.3 The Memorandum from Dumbraveni
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	6.2 Professional Organisations
		6.2.1 The Gypsy Musicians Progress
		6.2.2 The Founding of the General Association of Gypsies in Romania
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	6.3 National Organisations
		6.3.1 G. A. Lăzurică on Popp Șerboianu’s Book
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		6.3.2 An Appeal to All Gypsies in Romania
		6.3.3 A Call for a Meeting by the General Association of Gypsies in Romania
		6.3.4 A Call for Participation at a Roma Congress in Bucharest, October 8, 1933
		6.3.5 The Congress of the Gypsies
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		6.3.6 After the Congress of Roma
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		6.3.7 The Statute and Regulations of the General Union of the Roma in Romania
		6.3.8 The Artistic and Cultural Festival of the Roma
		6.3.9 The Roma from Romania Have Met
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		6.3.10 Roma Brothers!
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		6.3.11 Our Programme
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		6.3.12 An Appeal to the Roma from 1936
		6.3.13 What We Ask for
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	6.4 Regional Organisations
		6.4.1 The Police Report from Turnu Severin
		6.4.2 The Police Report from Şimian Island
		6.4.3 The Gypsy Life
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		6.4.4 The House, the School and the Church
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		6.4.5 The Neo-Rustic Brotherhood
		6.4.6 To all the Gypsies in Transylvania
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		6.4.7 Who Are We and What Do We Want?
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		6.4.8 From Our Activity
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		6.4.9 The Transylvanian Roma
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	6.5 Naming
		6.5.1 Is the Word ‘Gypsy’ a Word of Mockery, or the Name for a Nation
		6.5.2 What Roma Should Know
		6.5.3 Clarification
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	6.6 The Sedentarisation of the Gypsy Nomads
		6.6.1 The Colonisation of the Nomadic Gypsies
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		6.6.2 The Nomads Who Create Their Independent State
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		6.6.3 The Colonisation of Nomads
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	6.7 Religion
		6.7.1 God’s Work among the Gypsies
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		6.7.2 The Priests and Our Movement
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		6.7.3 The Orthodox Church and the Roma
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	6.8 The National Civic Identity
		6.8.1 The Gypsies in Romania. Who Were They? Who Are They? What Do They Want to be?
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		6.8.2 Faith, Country, King
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		6.8.3 To Write in the Romani Language
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		6.8.4 Romania for the Romanians
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		6.8.5 What Should a Rom Do
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	6.9 The Roma Women
		6.9.1 To the Roma Women
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		6.9.2 My Dearest Sisters
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		6.9.3 The Women in the Roma Association
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	6.10 Poems & Songs
		6.10.1 To the Roma
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		6.10.2 The March of the Roma
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		6.10.3 Let’s Sing Roma
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		Additional Comments
Chapter 7. Hungary
	7.1 The Hungarian Gypsy Musician’s National Association
		7.1.1 The Hungarian Gypsy Musician’s National Association Modified Statute
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		7.1.2 The Meeting in Defense of Professional Rights
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		7.1.3 The Extraordinary National Meeting with the Presence of Local Groups
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		7.1.4 The Battle against Jazz and for Protection of Hungarian Gypsy Music
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	7.2 The Restarting of the Gypsy Musicians’ Society and the Journal
		7.2.1 Károly Bura
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		7.2.2 The Bihari Gypsy Music School
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		7.2.3 The Dispute about the Repertoire of Gypsy Musicians
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	7.3 The Hungarian Gypsy Musicians’ National Federation
		7.3.1 The Hungarian Gypsy Musicians’ National Federation Statute
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		7.3.2 The Five-hundred-year Jubilee
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		7.3.3 The World Congress on Gypsyology
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		Additional Comments
Chapter 8. Czechoslovakia
	8.1 Naming and Labeling of Roma
		8.1.1 A Letter to the State Attorney’s Office in Uherské Hradiště
		8.1.2 A Letter to the Provincial Office in Prague
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	8.2 Schooling of the Roma
		8.2.1 A Letter to the President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
		8.2.2 A Letter to the President’s Office
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	8.3 Associations
		8.3.1 The Union of the Czechoslovak Gypsy Musicians
		8.3.2 The Establishment of the Society for the Study of the Gypsy Question
		8.3.3 The General Assembly of the Society
		8.3.4 A Quarter-Hour with Chief Physician Stuchlík about the Gypsies
		8.3.5 Social and Educational Activities of the State Police in Košice
		8.3.6 A Letter to the City Council in Košice (1)
		8.3.7 A Letter to the City Council in Košice (2)
		8.3.8 The Report on the Activities of the ‘Lavutarisz’ Society in Košice
		8.3.9 The Celebration of the 500th Anniversary of the Arrival of Gypsies in Slovakia
		Comments
		Additional Comments
Chapter 9. Poland
	9.1 The Gypsy Kings
		9.1.1 King Jan Michałak-Michailescu
		9.1.2 King Michał Kwiek in Krakow
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		9.1.3 Chancellor Rudolf Kwiek
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		9.1.4 The Gypsy Baron
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	9.2 Rivalry among Kings
		9.2.1 New Elections
		9.2.2 The President of the Council of the Gypsies
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		9.2.3 The Leader of the Gypsy Nation
		9.2.4 The Revolution in the Gypsy State
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		9.2.5 The King’s Funeral
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	9.3 Coronations
		9.3.1 The Election of the Gypsy King in Warsaw
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		9.3.2 The Coronation of a Polish Gypsy King
		Comment
	9.4 Attitudes of the Gypsies towards the Idea of Kingdom
		9.4.1 An Appeal to the Monarch’s Heart from a Poor Provincial Gypsy
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		9.4.2 The Poznan Gypsies – Enemies of King Kwiek
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	9.5 The International Activities of Gypsy Kings
		9.5.1 The Polish “King of Gypsies” Expelled from Czechoslovakia
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		9.5.2 The King of Gypsies Michał II Kwiek in Romania
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		9.5.3 The Office of the Central Gypsy Organisation to be Established in Warsaw
	9.6 The Dream about Our Own State
		9.6.1 The Gypsies’ Dreams about Their Own Country in Egypt
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		9.6.2 The King of the Gypsies, Michał Kwiek, Asks for Land in Africa
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		Additional Comments
Chapter 10. Latvia
	10.1 The Gypsy Culture Promotion Society ‘Friend of Gypsies’
		10.1.1 The Registration of the Society
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		10.1.2 A Meeting of the Members of the Society
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		10.1.3 A Report to the Prefect of Riga on the Meeting of the Members of the Society
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		10.1.4 The Request to Dissolve the Society
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		10.1.5 A Report of the Prefecture of Riga on the State and Activities of the Society
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		10.1.6 The Order of the Ministry of the Interior to Dissolve the Society
		10.1.7 The Request to the Minister of the Interior Asking that the Society not be Dissolved
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		10.1.8 Memo, Listing the Reasons for Dissolving the Society
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	10.2 Jānis Leimanis
		10.2.1 The Friend of the Latvian Gypsies
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		10.2.2 The Gypsy Songs from the Bushes Come to Riga
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		Summarising Comments
Chapter 11. Finland
	11.1 Naming
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	11.2 To the Roma Young People
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	11.3 The Gypsy Mission
		11.3.1 For the Roma Tribe
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		11.3.2 The Gypsy Mission’s Rules
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		11.3.3 Suggestions
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		Additional Comments
Chapter 12. The USSR
	12.1 The Union of the Gypsies
		12.1.1 The Society for the Organisation of the Proletarian Backward Gypsy Masses
		12.1.2 The Initiative Proletarian Group of the Gypsies
		12.1.3 Draft Statute
		12.1.4 The Minutes No. 4 (Moscow)
		12.1.5 The Plenum of the Delegates of the Moscow Gypsies
		12.1.6 The Statute of the Union of Gypsies, Living on the Territory of RSFSR
		12.1.7 The Alphabet of the Gypsy Language
		12.1.8 An Appeal to Gypsy Inhabitants of RSFSR
		12.1.9 Organising the Gypsy Union in Belarus
		12.1.10 The Report by A. F. Grakhovskiy
		12.1.11 Minutes No. 1 (Minsk)
		12.1.12 Organising the Gypsy Union in the Ukraine
		12.1.13 The Protest of N. Biz-Labza
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		12.1.14 The First Memorandum
		12.1.15 The Second Memorandum
		12.1.16 Third Memorandum
		Comments
	12.2 Publications
		12.2.1 The Gypsies Are Awaking
		12.2.2 About the Work among the Gypsies
		12.2.3 About the Land for Romanyčhave
		12.2.4 What to Do with the Gypsies?
		12.2.5 About the Political-Educational Work
		12.2.6 Bonfires Go Out
		12.2.7 War against anti-Gypsyism
		12.2.8 About the Work among the Roma
		12.2.9 About the Women’s Day
		12.2.10 About the Woman
		12.2.11 The Gypsy Theatre
		Comments
	12.3 Letters
		12.3.1 A Letter from Khutor Krikunovo
		12.3.2 The Gypsy Cavalry Division
		12.3.3 A Letter to M. I. Kalinin
		12.3.4 A Petition from the Gypsy Nomads
		12.3.5 The Memorandum to Stalin from Trofim Gerasimov
		12.3.6 A Letter to Stalin from the Gypsy Children
		12.3.7 A Letter to Stalin from the Delegates of the Western Oblast
		12.3.8 A Letter to Constitutional Commission
		12.3.9 A Letter to Stalin by Nikolay Pankov
		Comments
	12.4 Autonomy
		12.4.1 The Working Plan
		12.4.2 The Concise Report on Gypsies
		12.4.3 The Report to the Federal Committee of TsIK
		12.4.4 The Supporting Report
		12.4.5 The Memorandum on Results
		12.4.6 The Minutes of the Meeting at the Department of Nationalities at TsIK USSR
		12.4.7 The Draft Decree
		12.4.8 Heading the ‘Workers Propose’ (1)
		12.4.9 Heading the ‘Workers Propose’ (2)
		12.4.10 About the Gypsy National Rayon
		Comments
	12.5 (Auto)Biographies
		12.5.1 Andrey Taranov
		12.5.2 Nikolay Pankov
		12.5.3 Nina Dudarova
		12.5.4 Mikhail Bezlyudskiy
		12.5.5 Ilya Gerasimov
		12.5.6 Alexander German
		12.5.7 Ivan Tokmakov
		Comments
		Summarising Comments
Conclusion
Dictionary of Abbreviations and Neologisms in the USSR
References
	Archives
	Bibliography
	Newspapers, Popular Journals & Social Media
Annex 1. Romani Language Publications
Annex 2. Gypsy/Roma Journals and Newspapers