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Bitter choices : loyalty and betrayal in the Russian conquest of the North Caucasus /
This book tells the story of a single man with multiple allegiances and provides a concise and compelling history of the mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas. After forays beginning in the late 1500s, Russia tenuously conquered the peoples of the region in the 1850s; the campaign wa...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The frontiers of the North Caucasus
- Atarshchikov's childhood
- Journey through the northeast Caucasus
- Inside Ermolov's "iron fist"
- St. Petersburg and Poland
- Return to the North Caucasus
- Interpreter and administrator
- Russian policies and alternatives
- The first desertion
- From Semën Atarshchikov to Hajret Muhammed.