This authoritative survey of the Caucasus traces a unified narrative history of this complex and turbulent region at the borderlands of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Centring on the region's indigenous peoples, the book presents a critical view of the role of Russian imperialism in the Caucasian countries.
For the first time, this major new survey of the Caucasus traces a unified narrative history of this complex and turbulent region at the borderlands of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, from prehistory to the present. For thousands of years the Caucasus has formed the intersection of routes of migration, invasion, trade and culture, and a geographical bridge between Europe and Asia, subject to recurring imperial invasion. Drawing on sources in English, Russian, Persian and Arabic, amongst others, this authoritative study centres on the region's many indigenous peoples, including Abkhazians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Chechens and Circassians, and their relations with outsiders who still play an important part in the life of the region today. The book presents a critical view of the historical role of Russian imperialism in events in the Caucasian countries, and the violent struggle of some of these peoples in their efforts to establish a precarious independence.
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An authoritative new survey of the Caucasus, tracing a unified narrative history of this complex and turbulent region.
Introduction;
1. Caucasian origins;
2. Early medieval Caucasia: the
seventh to tenth centuries;
3. The Caucasus, Persia, Turkestan, Azerbaijan,
Europe: 10th12th centuries;
4. The later Crusades, Mongols and Ottoman Turks
13th15th centuries;
5. Georgia, Shirvan and North Caucasus to the 15th
century;
6. Caucasia between Persia and Ottoman Turkey;
7. The Caucasus and
the Russians;
8. Caucasia in the eighteenth century;
9. Russia's conquest of
the Caucasus;
10. World War and Russian revolution;
11. Independent Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Georgia and North Caucasus;
12. White Russians, native
insurrection, Bolshevik conquest;
13. The North and South Caucasus peoples
192039;
14. The Second World War, Beria and Stalin;
15. Caucasia from
Stalin's death to the 1980s (1);
16. Caucasia from Stalin's death to the
1980s (2);
17. The Caucasus and the end of the Soviet Union;
18. Armenia,
Karabagh, Azerbaijan;
19. Georgia 198793;
20. North Caucasus 198793;
21.
The Caucasus enters the twenty-first century;
22. Russian arbitrary politics
and Georgian resurgence; Bibliography.
James Forsyth is former Reader and Head of the Department of Russian at the University of Aberdeen. His publications include A History of the Peoples of Siberia (Cambridge, 1992).
