The book explores the religious and legal concepts, pathways, steps, forms and methods of implementing the ideology of religious and political extremism in the North Caucasus.

The authors present an attempt to understand the current process of nation-building in the South Caucasus. The authors maintain that the countries are re-writing their history vis-a-vis Russia, in order to serve their own political needs. The authors concentrate their analysis on Azerbaijan.

The Caucasus can be compared to a powerful fortress, protected by nature itself, so the Russian struggle to capture it lasted for many decades. This book presents a chronicle of the conquest of the Caucasus from the appearance of the first expeditions at the end of the 17th century to the development of a full-scale war. Unlike the multi-volume work of General Potto, Baddeley managed to...