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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814224203321

Autore

Ware Robert Bruce

Titolo

Dagestan : Russian hegemony and Islamic resistance in the North Caucasus / / by Robert Bruce Ware and Enver Kisriev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Armonk, N.Y. : , : M.E. Sharpe, , 2010

ISBN

1-317-47344-2

1-315-70530-3

1-317-47345-0

1-282-55477-8

9786612554773

0-7656-2398-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 251 pages) : maps

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

947.5/2

Soggetti

Islam - Russia (Federation) - Dagestan

Islam - Russia (Federation) - Caucasus, Northern

Muslims - Russia (Federation) - Dagestan

Dagestan (Russia) Ethnic relations Political aspects

Dagestan (Russia) Relations Russia

Caucasus, Northern (Russia) Relations Russia

Russia Relations Russia (Federation) Dagestan

Russia Relations Russia (Federation) Caucasus, Northern

Dagestan (Russia) History

Caucasus, Northern (Russia) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based on print version record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Detailed Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Where Mountains Rise; 2. Murids and Tsars: Islamic Ideology as an Antidote to Russian Colonialism; 3. Soviet Rule in the North Caucasus: Betrayal of Islam and Construction of Ethnicity; 4. Democratic Dagestan: Ethnic Accommodation in the Constitutional Djamaat; 5. The Islamic Factor: Revival and Radicalism; 6. Conflict and Catharsis: Why Dagestanis Fought to Remain in Russia; 7. Russian Recentralization and Islamic Resistance: Stepping on the



Same Rake; 8. Conclusion: A Gathering Darkness

Appendix: Miskindji Village ProtestsNotes; Index; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

The Caucasian republic of Dagestan, on Russia's southern frontier, has become contested territory in a hegemonic competition between Moscow and resurgent Islam. In this authoritative book the leading experts on Dagestan provide a pathbreaking study of this volatile region far from the world's gaze.