The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule

ISBN-13: 9780415625425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 388 str.

Alex Marshall

Opis

This text examines the impact of Soviet rule on the Caucasus, focusing in particular on the period from 1917 to 1955. It investigates the impact of Soviet policies, great power rivalry, and how the constituent nationalities came to re-define themselves across time.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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).