Allah's mountains : politics and war in the Russian Caucasus

著者

• Smith, Sebastian

書誌事項

Allah's mountains : politics and war in the Russian Caucasus

Sebastian Smith

I.B. Tauris, 1998

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This text explores the turmoil of the North Caucasus. Crisscrossed by billion-dollar oil pipelines and facing Iran and Turkey, this predominantly Moslem region is perhaps the most strategic in the Russian Federation. It is also the most unstable. Ferocious resistance meant that Russia took almost three centuries to conquer it and the declaration of independence by Chechnya, with the vicious war that ensued in 1994, laid bare enduring tensions between the indigenous peoples in Moscow. Beyond Chechnya, many other ethnic groups, like the Dagestanis, Adyegei and Balkars struggle to preserve their identities although none has so far taken up arms. The stakes are high: for the North Caucasians, ethnic pride and even survival as distinct people; for the Russians, control over the huge oil resources of the Caspian Sea and territorial integrity of the state.

目次

Part 1 The jigsaw. Part 2 Fires of liberty. Part 3 The jigsaw pieces, Part 4 The Chechen wolf. Part 5 The fury. Part 6 Chasing paradise.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA36896103
• ISBN:
  • 1860642152
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: x, 288 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC20 : 947.97
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Insurgency -- Russia (Federation)
  • LCSH : Insurgency -- Caucasus
  • LCSH : Caucasus -- Ethnic relations
  • LCSH : Russia (Federation) -- Ethnic relations