Muslim Resistance to the Tsar

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by Moshe Gammer 30 June 2003 Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan

Much has been written about the Muslim Murid movement and its leader Shamil, who resisted the Tsarist Russian expansion into Chechan and Daghestan for more than quarter of a century. This study, based on research in multilingual archives, offers a fresh insight into a subject that generates constant controversy in Russian historiography and has often been misinterpreted by Western scholars.

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