The book contains excerpts from several classic works on the Caucasus: articles on the war from the Entsiklopedicheskii slovar' Brokgauz i efron; chapters from V A Potto's 5 volume work on the Caucasus War and finally, Tbilisi in the 1830's, from the memoirs of F F Tornau.

Compiled by a leading Russian specialist on the Caucasus, this dictionary was not previously published - the author was a victim of Stalin's regime and died in 1941. The dictionary includes a description of the Tabasaran language and examples of Tabasaran texts compiled by the author.

The result of 12 years of research in the archives, this monograph presents statistical materials on the Chechens. The author has used the data to create original tables and creates a window on to the status and development of the Chechen in socio-economic terms, migration and demographic trends, taxes, land ownership and development and more.

The book examines the social processes underway in Chechnya in the middle of the 1990s. The author examines the tactics used by Russian forces, the role of Islamic fundamentalism.

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...