Muslim resistance to the tsar: Shamil and the conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan

Much has been written over the years about the Muslim 'Murid movement and its leader Shamil, who resisted the Tsarist Russian expansion into Chechan and Daghestan for more than a quarter of a century. This new study, based on painstaking research in multilingual archives, offers a fresh insight...

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Main Author: Gammer, Moše (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Frank Cass 1994
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Summary:Much has been written over the years about the Muslim 'Murid movement and its leader Shamil, who resisted the Tsarist Russian expansion into Chechan and Daghestan for more than a quarter of a century. This new study, based on painstaking research in multilingual archives, offers a fresh insight into a subject that generates constant controversy in Russian historiography and has often been misinterpreted by Western scholars.
Physical Description:XXIII, 452 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:071463431X

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