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The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global affairs. This book provides the first comprehensive study of the impact of Soviet policy on the Caucasus, focusing in particular on the period from 1917 to 1955. It argues that understanding the Soviet legacy in the region remains critical to analysing both the new states of the Transcaucasus and the autonomous territories of the North Caucasus.
The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global affairs. This book provides the first comprehensive study of the impact of Soviet policy on the Caucasus, focusing in particular on the period from 1917 to 1955. It argues that understanding the Soviet legacy in the region remains critical to analysing both the new states of the Transcaucasus and the autonomous territories of the North Caucasus.
1. The North Caucasus: Between gazavat and Modern Revolution 1700-1905. 2. 1905-1917: The First Crisis of Modernity in the Caucasus. 3. 1917-1918 in the Caucasus-from World War to Civil War. 4. 1919-1920: The British and Denikin’s Caucasus. 5. Insurgency, Corruption, and the Search for a New Socialist Order, 1920-25. 6. Decossackization, Demarcation, Categorization: Creating the Soviet Caucasus, 1920-27. 7. Forging the Proletariat: Women, Collectivization, and Repression, 1928-1934. 8. Dreams of Unity, Myths of Power: The Caucasian Diaspora. 9. The Purges and Industrial Modernization: the Soviet Caucasus in the 1930s. 10. Dealing with ‘Bandits’: Cleansing and Ethnic Repression in the Soviet Caucasus, 1941-45. 11. The Final Structural Crisis of the Soviet State, 1953-91. 12. Three Dystopias of the Post-Soviet Caucasus, 1991-2008. Afterword - The North Caucasus as a Regional Security Complex: Vladimir Putin, Pipelines, and the Rebuilding of the Russian Federal State.
Alex Marshall is currently Convenor of the Scottish Centre for War Studies, University of Glasgow, UK. His other publications include The Russian General Staff and Asia, 1800-1917 (also published by Routledge).
"This is the best book in English on the modern history of the
North Caucasus as a whole, and the only one to treat the Soviet
period with depth and objectivity. In a field too often marred by
shrill propaganda masquerading as scholarship, Alex Marshall has
produced a work of true scholarship." - Professor Anatol Lieven,
King's College London, author of Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian
Power
"Given the huge complexity and breadth of its subject, it is
remarkably concise and comprehensive, and will be useful for
teaching as well as indispensable for researchers. His account
decisively explodes the long-lived émigré myth of constant conflict
and oppression in the Soviet Caucasus. Whilst Marshall never
glosses over the violent episodes, he shows how these were offset
by lengthy periods of pragmatic accommodation to Soviet power and
co-optation of local elites, which are in many ways of greater
importance in understanding the politics of the region today." -
Alexander Morrison, University of Liverpool; SEER, 90, 1, January
2012"This is an interesting book and one of the best that we have
on the Soviet Caucasus to date... this book is a refreshing
appraisal of the nature of Soviet power in the Caucasus over seven
decades... This book is an important contribution to the history of
the North Caucasus in the twentieth century." - Stephen F. Jones,
Mount Holyoke College; Revolutionary Russia, 25:1
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