Description:
The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global affairs. This book provides the first comprehensive study of the impact of Soviet policy on the Caucasus, focusing in particular on the period from 1917 to 1955. It argues that understanding the Soviet legacy in the region remains critical to analysing both the new states of the Transcaucasus and the autonomous territories of the North Caucasus.
Review Quotes:
"This is the best book in English on the modern history of the North Caucasus as a whole, and the only one to treat the Soviet period with depth and objectivity. In a field too often marred by shrill propaganda masquerading as scholarship, Alex Marshall has produced a work of true scholarship." - Professor Anatol Lieven, King's College London, author of Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power