Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the CaucasusThe jagged peaks of the Caucasus Mountains have hosted a rich history of diverse nations, valuable trade, and incessant warfare. But today the region is best known for atrocities in Chechnya and the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia. In Let Our Fame Be Great, journalist and Russian expert Oliver Bullough explores the fascinating cultural crossroads of the Caucasus, where Europe, Asia, and the Middle East intersect. Traveling through its history, Bullough tracks down the nations dispersed by the region's last two hundred years of brutal warfare. Filled with a compelling mix of archival research and oral history, Let Our Fame Be Great recounts the tenacious survival of peoples who have been relentlessly invaded and persecuted and yet woefully overlooked. |
Contents
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We Share Happiness We Share Sadness | 32 |
The Russian push into Circassia 1830s and 1840s | 45 |
Circassia and the Crimean War | 65 |
Lermontovs Caucasus | 89 |
The expulsions of the Circassians | 100 |
The Circassians in the Caucasus today | 115 |
The Imam and the Princesses | 264 |
The raid on Georgia | 265 |
Fire is Better Than Shame | 280 |
The Old Man Shamil | 293 |
People Should Not Return Ever | 307 |
This is All for the Sake of Allah | 323 |
Deportation to Central Asia | 324 |
Everyone was Scared of Them | 340 |
Here Lived the Circassians | 127 |
Stalins deportations | 146 |
The high peaks of the Caucasus | 168 |
Liquidate the Bandit Group | 195 |
The Unnation was a New Phenomenon | 210 |
War is War But to Behave in That Way is Not Right | 237 |
Chechnya | 238 |
Mountain Dagestan | 244 |
A Muslim Submissive to the Will of God | 250 |
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