The Caucasian War: National-Liberation Struggle of the Highlanders of the North Caucasus from the 1820s to the 1860s
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The generalizing work by a large collective of scholars contains a sophisticated research on historiography of national-liberation movements and social-economic and political status of the North-Caucasian highlanders starting from the late XVIIIth to the early XIXth century. The authors bring to the front the reasons and nature of the highlanders' struggle, envisage stages and the march of military operations, the role of a new state formation - imamate in the history of the North-Caucasian peoples as well as the attitude of Russian society towards the Caucasian War, reasons of highlanders' defeat and its consequences.
