В 1920-1930-х гг, благодаря усилившемуся интересу к изучению истории крымских татар, отечественное востоковедение переживает период нового расцвета. Основываются различные научные общества, проводится обширная исследовательская работа по изучению археологических, этнографических и архивных материалов, публикуется большое количество научной и научно-популярной литературы. Особенно важную роль для развития исторической науки сыграли научные общества и организации. Среди них, прежде всего, следует назвать Таврическую Ученую Архивную Комиссию, основанную еще в 1887 г
This article is devoted to the problem of studying the history of the Crimean Khanate in the Soviet historiography of the pre-war period (1920 -1930). These were the years when the process of the formation of the Soviet Oriental studies took place, developing its theoretical concepts. Numerous scientific and lore societies undertook the study of the history of the Crimean Tatars as one of the aspects of their activity. The result of it was publishing a great number of scientific and popular scientific works. According to historic views of that period, one of the characteristic features of those works was a distinct social-class approach to the study of the history of the Crimean Khanate. Critical remarks should be made, concerning the reasons to the transition to settling and the foreign activity of the Khanate. Conclusions, that the historians arrived at, concerning the interrelationship between Christians and Moslems and ethnic processes taking place on the peninsula, cannot be called indisputable. Work of the Soviet orientalists gave some hope that developing this problem would be carried out. However, the devastation of Soviet study of Oriental studies in 1930s destroyed long-term works of these authors.
