Bitter choices : loyalty and betrayal in the Russian conquest of the North Caucasus /
This book tells the story of a single man with multiple allegiances and provides a concise and compelling history of the mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas. After forays beginning in the late 1500s, Russia tenuously conquered the peoples of the region in the 1850s; the campaign wa...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2011
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |