By Ben Fowkes
ISBN-10: 0312211279
ISBN-13: 9780312211271
ISBN-10: 1349263516
ISBN-13: 9781349263516
ISBN-10: 1349263532
ISBN-13: 9781349263530
This choice of essays explores the connection among the Chechens and their Russian conquerors, tracing the expansion of distrust and hostility, the increase of Chechen nationwide feeling, and the fruits of this technique within the conflict of 1994-1996. each one contributor seeks to light up the improvement of this courting from a special attitude: the altering picture of the independence opponents of the 19th century, the tragic tale of the deportation of 1944, and the historical past of the hot clash.
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39 Pokrovskii and other Soviet historians of this period termed the incorporation of non-Russian people into the Russian Empire an 'absolute evil'. The Shamillegend was actively promoted through popular biographies and children's books, as well as more scholarly works. According to a textbook published in 1937 he was 'a talented and energetic leader . . of the mountain people who fought against the tsarist colonialists. ' 40 Shamil was presented in Soviet history textbooks as a brave and capable military leader, and an opponent of local feudalism.
A. Getty,43 although the special circumstances surrounding the liquidation of the Muslim 36 Bulent Gokay communists in the same period have received comparatively little attention from historians. During this period, the Soviet government began the Russification of the Communist Party apparatus in Muslim territories. Many local Muslim communist leaders were arrested for 'nationalist deviation'. In 1928, Sultan Galiev was re-arrested, received a ten-year prison sentence and was sent to the Solovki camps.
S. 47. Magomedov also gives the apparently contradictory figure of 61 200 miirids for the 'national republics of the Northern Caucasus'; if this is adopted the number of Sufis in Chechnia alone in 1926 would have to be scaled down considerably. 34. These figures are taken from G. 416. 35. It would take us too far afield to examine the controversy over the Circassians. Soviet writers of an earlier time viewed their subdivision as a wise response to genuine national differences. In the West it has been seen as a case of 'divide and rule'.
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