The North Caucasus Barrier: The Russian Advance Towards the Muslim World [Hardcover]

Abdurahman Abtorkhanov (Author), Marie Bennigsen Broxup (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0312075758 | ISBN-13: 978-0312075750 | Publication Date: April 1992

Provides a historical background for the current conflicts in the southern, Moslem, area of the newly reformed Russian Federation. Going back to the time of Ivan the Terrible, and forward to repercussions of the 1991 coup attempt, documents how the Caucasus Mountains are the anvil on which the Russ

Product Details

• Hardcover: 252 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (April 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312075758
• ISBN-13: 978-0312075750
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,984,939 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars The North Caucasus Barrier, April 13, 2001

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Daniel Pipes, Middle East Forum (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The North Caucasus Barrier: The Russian Advance Towards the Muslim World (Hardcover)

The collapse of the Soviet Union has made ancient areas once again visible, both because information about them is newly accessible and because their many conflicts put them in the news. The Caucasus fits this description unusually well, for only a handful of specialists know anything about this very turbulent region. The North Caucasus Barrier contains outstanding studies by Chantal Lemercier-Quelquejay on Russia's cooption of Caucasian elites; by Moshe Gammer on its strategies of conquest; by Paul B. Henze on the Circassian resistance; and by the editor and Abdurahman Avtorkhanov (a historic Chechen figure) on the Soviet period. It also contains a final chapter on developments after the 1991 putsch attempt. Broxup and her five colleagues provide an important service in bringing to general attention (and especially to Russian and Middle Eastern specialists) the scope of the North Caucasus's two-century war with Russia, the longest going between any Muslim and Christian peoples. The conflict's significance for Russia lies in the immense impact-psychological, literary, political-of the Caucasian wars. For the Middle East, that the martial peoples of that mountainous region "stood guard and protected the Muslim world" made it possible for Turkey and Iran to retain their independence.

Middle East Quarterly, June 1994