Bitter Choices Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus

Name: Bitter Choices Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus
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ISBN: 9780801479526

ISBN-10: 0801479525

ISBN-13: 9780801479526

Edition: 2014

Authors: Michael Khodarkovsky

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Russia's attempt to consolidate its authority in the North Caucasus has exerted a terrible price on both sides since the mid-nineteenth century. Michael Khodarkovsky's 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 was defined by a cruelty on both sides that established a pattern repeated in our own time, particularly in Chechnya.At the center of Khodarkovsky's sweeping account is Semen Atarshchikov (1807-1845). His father was a Chechen translator…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 2/4/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Michael Khodarkovsky is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University of Chicago. He is author of Where Two Worlds Met: The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600-1771 and co-editor (with Robert Geraci) of Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in the Russian Empire.