ABSTRACT

The Caucasus John F. Baddeley, The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus (London, 1908) is a riveting read, but based exclusively on Russian sources. See also his later work, The Rugged Flanks of the Caucasus (London, 1940). This has been corrected by Moshe Gammer, Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest ofChechnia and Daghestan (London, 1994), whose account of the terrible cruelty of the Russian conquest makes the bitterness of the conflict in Chechnia today readily understandable. See also A. Altstadt, The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity under Russian Rule (Stanford, CA, 1992), Muriel Atkin, Russia and Iran 1780-1828 (Minneapolis, MN 1980), D. M. Lang, The Last Years of the Georgian Monarchy 1658-1832 (New York, 1957), idem, A Modern History of Georgia (London, 1962), R. Hovannisen, The Republic ofArmenia, 2 vols (Berkeley, CA, 1971 & 1982), R. G. Suny, The Making of the Georgian Nation: From Prehistory to Soviet Rule (London, 1989) and T. Swietochowski, Russian Azerbaijan, 1905-1920: The Shaping of a National Identity in a Muslim Community (Cambridge, 1988). A. L. H. Rhinelander, Prince Michael Vorontsov: Viceroy to the Tsar (Montreal, 1990) is about one of the more humane Russian viceroys of the Caucasus. See also below in the section on Russia in Asia for general books about Islam in Russia. See also M. Atkin, Russia and Iran, 17801828, (Minneapolis, MN, 1980).