From Conquest to Deportation: The North Caucasus under Russian Rule

492 Pages·2018·5.198 MB·English

by  Jeronim Perović

FROM CONQUEST TO DEPORTATION

JERONIM PEROVIĆ
From Conquest to
Deportation
The North Caucasus under
Russian Rule
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Names: Jeronim Perović.
Title: From Conquest to Deportation: The North Caucasus under
Russian Rule / Jeronim Perović.
Description: Oxford [UK]; New York: Oxford University Press, [2018]
ISBN 9780190889890 (print)
ISBN 9780190934675 (updf)
ISBN 9780190934897 (epub)
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Glossary, Acronyms and Abbreviations ix
Note on Transliteration and Dating xix
Foreword xxi

Introduction 1
1. Conquest and Resistance 21
2. Musa Kundukhov and the Tragedy of Mass Emigration 53
3. The North Caucasus Within the Russian Empire 75
4. Revolutions and Civil War 103
5. Illusion of Freedom 145
6. State and Society 185
7. The North Caucasus During Collectivisation 227
8. At the Fringes of the Stalinist Mobilising Society 255
9. Conformity and Rebellion 289
10. After Deportation 315
Conclusion 325
Notes 329
Bibliography 407
Index 437

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Maps
1. Physical map of the Caucasus
2. The Caucasus in the Russian Empire, 1903–14
3. The Soviet Caucasus, 1921
4. Ethnic groups of the Caucasus, 1926
5. The Chechen autonomous region, 1928
6. Administrative structure of the Caucasus, 1936–8
7. ‘Operation schedule’ (Einsatzplan) contained in Reinhard Lange’s
report on the ‘Special operation “Shamil”’ of 5 January 1943 (BArch
Abt. MA, Blatt 1/36). Published with courtesy of the Bundesarchiv,
Abt. Militärarchiv.
Photographs
Figure 1: The village of Tindi in Dagestan. Photo taken in 1897.
Source: Hoover Institution Archives, Maurice de Déchy, Vue du
Caucase: portfolio of photographs, 1897, 1 manuscript box.
Figure 2: Lezgins from the village of Echeda in Dagestan. Photo taken in
1897.
Source: Hoover Institution Archives, Maurice de Déchy, Vue du
Caucase: portfolio of photographs, 1897, 1 manuscript box.
Figure 3: Mikhail Kalinin, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive
Committee, talks to Terek Cossacks while visiting a Red Army
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
barrack in the North Caucasus. Photo taken in 1921.
Source: RGAKFD, cypher D–150.
Figure 4: Anastas Mikoian, Iosif Stalin, and Grigorii Ordzhonikidze.
Moscow 1926.
Source: RGAKFD, cypher G–21.
Figure 5: Ali Mitaev after his arrest. Photo undated, ca. 1924.
Source: Museum im. A.Sh. Mamakaev in the village of
Nadcheretnii (Lakha-Nevre), Chechnia. Published with courtesy
of the Archive’s Department of the Government of the Chechen
Republic (AUP ChR).
Figure 6: Reconciliation of two families involved in blood feud, Chechen-
Ingush ASSR. Photo taken in 1936.
Source: RGAKFD, cypher 0–266255.
Figure 7: Inhabitants of Dagestan performing the national dance. Photo
taken in 1936.
Source: RGAKFD, cypher 0–24290.
Figure 8: Shepherd Sherip Suliev of the kolkhoz ‘20 Years of the Red
Army’ in Vedeno with his breeding bulls. Vedenskii district,
Chechen-Ingush ASSR. Photo taken in 1940.
Source: RGAKFD, cypher 0–46148.
Figure 9: Khasan Israilov. Undated photograph.
Source: http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4425/11206178.1e/0_9
5f98_82a11398_orig (last accessed 30 October 2017).
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