Circassia; Speech at a Public Meeting Held ... to Receive the Deputies from Circassia
Author : Stewart Erskine Rolland
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Page : pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 1862
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Author : Stewart Erskine Rolland
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Page : pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 1862
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Author : Stewart Erskine ROLLAND
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 1862
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Author : Stewart Rolland (Erskine)
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 1862
Category : Russia
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Author : Stewart Erskine Rolland
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 1862
Category : Circassia
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Author : Stewart E. Rolland
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 1862
Category : Circassia (Russia)
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Author : Charles King
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 2008-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0199884323
The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the twentieth century lay inside the Soviet Union, before movements of national liberation created newly independent countries and sparked the devastating war in Chechnya. Combining riveting storytelling with insightful analysis, The Ghost of Freedom is the first general history of the modern Caucasus, stretching from the beginning of Russian imperial expansion up to the rise of new countries after the Soviet Union's collapse. In evocative and accessible prose, Charles King reveals how tsars, highlanders, revolutionaries, and adventurers have contributed to the fascinating history of this borderland, providing an indispensable guide to the complicated histories, politics, and cultures of this intriguing frontier. Based on new research in multiple languages, the book shows how the struggle for freedom in the mountains, hills, and plains of the Caucasus has been a perennial theme over the last two hundred years--a struggle which has led to liberation as well as to new forms of captivity. The book sheds valuable light on the origins of modern disputes, including the ongoing war in Chechnya, conflicts in Georgia and Azerbaijan, and debates over oil from the Caspian Sea and its impact on world markets. Ranging from the salons of Russian writers to the circus sideshows of America, from the offices of European diplomats to the villages of Muslim mountaineers, The Ghost of Freedom paints a rich portrait of one of the world's most turbulent and least understood regions.
Author : Guildhall Library (London, England)
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Page : 1154 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
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Author : Charles King
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 2010-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199888116
Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist ideology, social violence, and the political transformation of Europe and Eurasia over the last two decades. The end of communism seemed to usher in a period of radical change-an era of "extreme politics" that pitted nations, ethnic groups, and violent entrepreneurs against one another, from the wars in the Balkans and Caucasus to the apparent upsurge in nationalist mobilization throughout the region. But the last twenty years have also illustrated the incredible diversity of political life after the end of one-party rule. Extreme Politics engages with themes from the micropolitics of social violence, to the history of nationalism studies, to the nature of demographic change in Eurasia. Published twenty years since the collapse of communism, Extreme Politics charts the end of "Eastern Europe" as a place and chronicles the ongoing revolution in the scholarly study of the post-communist world.
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Page : 676 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 1840
Category : World politics
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Author : Guildhall Library (London, England)
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Page : 574 pages
File Size : 43,14 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Great Britain
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