ABSTRACT
Muslim political mobilization caused little trouble to the authorities during the 1905 Revolution. Nevertheless, from 1907 onwards Kazan’s police retrospectively ‘uncovered’ widespread revolutionary and separatist Muslim conspiracies that were said to have proliferated during the revolutionary period. This chapter pursues the fabrication of this narrative and discusses its basic components. It then examines the grounds on which the authorities grew suspicious about their actually quite loyal Muslim subjects; and, finally, it analyses that suspicion’s effects on Russian-Muslim relations, as well as on inner-Muslim developments.
