Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

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).

Reviews

"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