"The Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus offers an integrated, multidisciplinary overview of the historical, ethno-linguistic, cultural, socio-economic and political complexities of the Caucasus. Covering both the North and South Caucasus, the book gathers together leading Western, Caucasian and Russian scholars of the region from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Following a thorough introduction by the Editors, the handbook is divided into six parts which combine thematic and chronological principles: Place, Peoples and Culture, Political History, The Contemporary Caucasus: Politics, Economics and Societies, Conflict and Political Violence, The Caucasus in the Wider World, Societal and Cultural Dynamics. This handbook will be an essential reference work for scholars interested in Russian and Eastern European Studies, Eurasian history and politics and Religious and Islamic Studies"--
Home to a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus has often been the object of imperial ambition. This book reveals how tsars, revolutionaries and adventurers have contributed to the fascinating history of this borderland.
Over the past decade and a half, Europe has gone from the role of a bystander to the affairs of the Caucasus to that of an interested party with increasingly clearly defined interests in the region.
“Your horsesare fatigued,”she said, as they rode onwards, “andtheday isso farspent, that itwill beafter nightfall ere you can reachany shelter, and I fear that, before long, a storm will burst over our heads: yon black cloud is butthe ...
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the apparent transition of its successor states to democracy gave rise to the hopes of greater cooperation between the United States and Russia.
In villages unseen by outsiders since before the revolution, Phillip Marsden encounters men and women of courage, dazed by the century's turbulence.
The Nation Killers
European Georgia: (ethnogeopolitics in Caucasus and Ethnogenetical History of Europe)
The Caucasus is a jagged land.
Eastern Voices: Europe's East Faces an Unsettled West
The answers we received in response to the question, “in your opinion, how significant are Alevi organizations in protecting Alevi identity?” clearly show the central position of Alevi organizations in the quest to rebuild Alevi ...