Table of Contents

Part I: Background The People and the Land The Russian Advent Part II: Russian Conquest The First Gazavat The Beginning of the Caucasian War The Great Gazavat The Victory of the Axe Part III: Under the Tsar From Quietism to Uprising The Lesser Gazavat The Emperor's Insubordinate Subjects Part IV: Between the Hammer and the Sickle The Last Gazavat Sovietisation From Political Banditism to National Liberation Deportation and Return Rehabilitation Part V: Post-Soviet Disorder From Chechen Revolution to Jihad

About the Author

MOSHE GAMMER, Senior Lecturer in History at Tel Aviv University, is the author of Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan

Reviews

'An excellent study, and one that is badly needed. [A...] It is also a groundbreaking work. It is the only book that has attempted to grapple with such a large chronological swathe of Chechen history, and to integrate those periods into a coherent whole. This is no mean feat because several of the periods have barely been studied.'-Michael Reynolds, Harvard University