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Acknowledgments |
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Note from the publisher on stylistic conventions |
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Introduction |
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1 | (7) |
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8 | (26) |
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8 | (6) |
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Peoples of the Caucasus and their languages |
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14 | (4) |
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Persians, Greeks and Romans |
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18 | (4) |
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22 | (10) |
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North and East Caucasia, Albania |
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32 | (2) |
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2 Early medieval Caucasia, the seventh to tenth centuries |
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34 | (43) |
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The Arab conquest of the Caucasus |
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34 | (9) |
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Bagratid Georgia's rise and Armenia's demise |
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43 | (5) |
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48 | (10) |
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58 | (2) |
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60 | (6) |
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66 | (5) |
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Persian Islam and separatism |
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71 | (6) |
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3 The Caucasus, Persia, Turkestan, Azerbaijan, Europe, the tenth to twelfth centuries |
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77 | (34) |
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Inner-Asian migration and trade routes |
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77 | (3) |
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Oghuz, Ghaznavid and Seljuq Turks |
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80 | (7) |
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87 | (5) |
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The origins of Azerbaijan and Shirvan |
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92 | (3) |
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Azerbaijan and the Seljuq Turkish inundation |
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95 | (8) |
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Armenia, Byzantium, Turks and Crusaders |
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103 | (8) |
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4 The later Crusades, Mongols and Ottoman Turks, the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries |
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111 | (32) |
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111 | (5) |
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Armenia at the time of the Crusades |
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116 | (7) |
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The Mongols in the Middle East and the Caucasus |
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123 | (3) |
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Khwarazm-shah Jalal ad-Din |
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126 | (2) |
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Anatolia: Greeks, Seljuqs and Mongols |
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128 | (3) |
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131 | (2) |
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The Golden Horde and Timurlenk |
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133 | (2) |
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135 | (6) |
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The Byzantine Empire's end and Ottoman Turkey's triumph |
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141 | (2) |
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5 Georgia, Shirvan and North Caucasus to the fifteenth century |
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143 | (33) |
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Georgia at the height of its power |
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143 | (7) |
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White Sheep Turks and Black Sheep Turks |
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150 | (2) |
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Shirvan to the fifteenth century |
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152 | (5) |
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157 | (9) |
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Daghestan and north-east Caucasus |
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166 | (4) |
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170 | (3) |
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Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian |
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173 | (3) |
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6 Caucasia between Persia and Ottoman Turkey |
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176 | (37) |
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The Turks and intra-Islamic conflicts |
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176 | (4) |
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Black Sheep and White Sheep Turks and Shirvan-shahs |
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180 | (5) |
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185 | (3) |
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Georgia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries |
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188 | (5) |
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193 | (2) |
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Armenia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries |
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195 | (5) |
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The North Caucasus peoples up to the eighteenth century |
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200 | (5) |
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Georgia as a vassal state |
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205 | (6) |
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The Caucasus in the late eighteenth century |
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211 | (2) |
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7 The Caucasus and the Russians |
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213 | (16) |
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Black Sea approaches: Cossacks and Crimean Tatars |
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213 | (4) |
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The North Caucasus steppe: early Russian contacts |
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217 | (3) |
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Russian forts and native allegiance |
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220 | (4) |
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Georgia in the seventeenth century |
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224 | (5) |
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8 Caucasia in the eighteenth century |
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229 | (38) |
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Russia's Peter I and the Caucasus |
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229 | (7) |
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The Volga--Ural steppe: Nogays and Kalmyks |
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236 | (9) |
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Kuban, Circassia, Crimea, the Ukrainian Cossacks |
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245 | (5) |
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Daghestan in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries |
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250 | (5) |
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The question of Azerbaijan |
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255 | (2) |
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Georgia in the eighteenth century |
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257 | (3) |
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South Caucasus at the end of the eighteenth century |
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260 | (5) |
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Tsaritsa Catherine II's `Oriental Project' and the Caucasus |
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265 | (2) |
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9 Russia's conquest of the Caucasus |
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267 | (54) |
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Russian nationalist ideology and the Caucasus |
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267 | (3) |
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Russia's annexation of Georgia, 1774--1822 |
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270 | (2) |
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Russia's Orthodox Christianization campaign and Osetia |
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272 | (4) |
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Azerbaijan and Armenia, 1800--1840 |
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276 | (1) |
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Resistance in Chechenia and Daghestan |
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277 | (7) |
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The Russo-Circassian War; Abkhazia and Turkey |
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284 | (9) |
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North Caucasus and Daghestan: harassment and deportation |
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293 | (3) |
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Russia's Caspian frontier: Kalmykia and Turkmenistan |
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296 | (2) |
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Russification in the Caucasus |
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298 | (2) |
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Georgian culture, 1820--1905 |
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300 | (4) |
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304 | (3) |
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307 | (6) |
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Beginnings of Muslim politics in Russia's empire |
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313 | (5) |
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The Caucasus in the Russian Empire |
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318 | (3) |
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10 World war and Russian revolution |
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321 | (53) |
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Russian society, 1900--1917 |
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321 | (2) |
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Economy and revolution in Azerbaijan |
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323 | (4) |
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The First World War and Russia's 1917 revolution |
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327 | (2) |
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The February Revolution and Lenin's October coup d'etat |
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329 | (6) |
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The Constituent Assembly and anti-Bolshevik resistance |
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335 | (1) |
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Muslim politics and the Russian revolution |
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336 | (3) |
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The Caucasian peoples, 1900 to the First World War |
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339 | (6) |
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The Caucasian peoples and the Russian revolution |
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345 | (3) |
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The Cossacks in the Russian Civil War |
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348 | (5) |
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Crimea in the Russian revolution and Civil War |
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353 | (2) |
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North Caucasus, 1917--1918 |
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355 | (12) |
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South Caucasus: Bolsheviks, Turks, Germans |
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367 | (7) |
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11 Independent Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and North Caucasus |
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374 | (39) |
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Self-determination and reality in `Transcaucasia' |
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374 | (10) |
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North Caucasus, June 1918 to July 1919 |
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384 | (9) |
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South Caucasus, November 1918 to early 1920 |
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393 | (3) |
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Persia and the two Azerbaijans |
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396 | (7) |
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Armenia and the Ottoman and Azerbaijani Turkish problem |
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403 | (10) |
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12 White Russians, native insurrection, Bolshevik conquest |
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413 | (28) |
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North Caucasus, July 1919 to early 1920 |
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413 | (5) |
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South Caucasus, 1919--1921 |
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418 | (9) |
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Muslim politics and Bolshevik dictatorship |
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427 | (7) |
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Russian nationalist communists and Muslims |
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434 | (1) |
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North Caucasus, 1920--1922 |
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435 | (6) |
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13 The North and South Caucasus peoples, 1920--1939 |
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441 | (78) |
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Ethnic, religious and cultural institutions |
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441 | (2) |
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The Cossack lands, 1919--1939 |
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443 | (4) |
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447 | (6) |
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453 | (8) |
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461 | (13) |
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Osetia and north-west Caucasus |
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474 | (17) |
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Georgia, Armenia and the `Transcaucasian Federation' |
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491 | (15) |
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Communist Terror in the Caucasus |
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506 | (13) |
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14 The Second World War, Beria and Stalin |
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519 | (41) |
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Russia's `Great War of the Fatherland' |
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519 | (1) |
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Nazi racism and Soviet collaboration |
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520 | (2) |
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The Cossacks in the Second World War |
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522 | (2) |
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524 | (3) |
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German occupation of North Caucasus |
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527 | (3) |
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Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Stalingrad battle |
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530 | (3) |
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The Soviet reconquest and deportation of North Caucasian peoples |
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533 | (6) |
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South Caucasia and Daghestan in the war |
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539 | (15) |
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Soviet post-war expansionism: Iranian Azerbaijan and Kurdistan |
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554 | (6) |
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15 Caucasia from Stalin's death to the 1980s (1) |
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560 | (42) |
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Russia's Iron Curtain in the south |
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560 | (2) |
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562 | (5) |
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567 | (5) |
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Secular culture, language and nationalism |
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572 | (21) |
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North Caucasus after the mass deportations |
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593 | (9) |
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16 Caucasia from Stalin's death to the 1980s (2) |
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602 | (32) |
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Ethnic minorities in South Caucasus |
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602 | (2) |
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Historiography and national cultures; Shamil |
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604 | (9) |
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Communist government and indigenous opposition |
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613 | (6) |
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Demography and national movements: Daghestan |
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619 | (5) |
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Demography and national movements: North Caucasus |
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624 | (5) |
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629 | (3) |
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632 | (2) |
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17 The Caucasus and the end of the Soviet Union |
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634 | (15) |
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The crisis in Soviet imperialism: the August 1991 coup |
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634 | (5) |
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The USSR's non-Russian peoples assert their identity |
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639 | (5) |
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Self-determination in practice once more |
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644 | (5) |
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18 Armenia, Karabagh, Azerbaijan |
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649 | (22) |
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War over Highland Karabagh |
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649 | (7) |
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Azerbaijan from restructuring to independence |
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656 | (5) |
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Ethnic minorities in Azerbaijan |
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661 | (1) |
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662 | (2) |
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664 | (7) |
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671 | (28) |
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671 | (2) |
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Georgia's ethnic multiplicity and nationalism |
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673 | (8) |
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681 | (3) |
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684 | (4) |
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688 | (5) |
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Georgia's Acharian and other Muslims |
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693 | (2) |
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Abkhazia, Georgia and Rossiya from 1992 |
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695 | (4) |
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20 North Caucasus, 1987--1993 |
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699 | (26) |
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Ethnic unrest and the Russian government |
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699 | (1) |
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700 | (5) |
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705 | (7) |
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712 | (3) |
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715 | (3) |
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718 | (3) |
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721 | (4) |
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21 The Caucasus enters the twenty-first century |
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725 | (56) |
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North Caucasus after Russia's 1991 coup d'etat |
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725 | (3) |
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The Confederation of Mountain Peoples |
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728 | (7) |
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Russian alarmist propaganda about North Caucasus |
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735 | (3) |
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Russia's militarization of North Caucasus |
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738 | (2) |
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Capitalist enterprise and Caspian petroleum |
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740 | (6) |
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Post-communist Russia and its former colonies |
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746 | (2) |
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The Ingush and Rossiya after 1991 |
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748 | (3) |
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The martyrdom of the Chechen people |
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751 | (21) |
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Armenia: culture, war and politics, 1991--2008 |
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772 | (9) |
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22 Russia's arbitrary politics and Georgian resurgence |
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781 | (49) |
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Central Caucasus: old borders and renewed Russian imperialism |
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781 | (6) |
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Ingushia and North Osetia, 2002--2008 |
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787 | (4) |
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The Osetians, the Georgians and Russia |
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791 | (4) |
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Georgia: North Caucasus contacts and Putinist aggression |
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795 | (2) |
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New Georgia and old problems |
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797 | (14) |
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811 | (8) |
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Georgia and the wider world |
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819 | (6) |
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The Caucasus and the Middle East |
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825 | (5) |
Bibliography |
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830 | (36) |
Index |
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