Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction : where mountains rise
  • 2. Murids and tsars : Islamic ideology as an antidote to Russian colonialism
  • 3. Soviet rule in the North Caucasus : betrayal of Islam and construction of ethnicity
  • 4. Democratic Dagestan : ethnic accommodation in the constitutional Djamaat
  • 5. The Islamic factor : revival and radicalism
  • 6. Conflict and catharsis : why Dagestanis fought to remain in Russia
  • 7. Russian recentralization and Islamic resistance : stepping on the same rake
  • 8. Conclusion : a gathering darkness.