Land, Community, and the State in the North Caucasus: Kabardino-Balkaria, 1763-1991
Journal: OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network)
Year: 2014

The Caucasus mountain region in southern Russia has witnessed many of post-Soviet Eurasia's most violent inter-communal conflicts.From Abkhazia to Chechnya, the region fractured ferociously and neighboring communities took up arms against each other in the name of ethnicity and religion.In the midst of some of the worst conflict in Europe since 1945, the semiautonomous, multiethnic Kabardino-Balkar Republic in the North Caucasus remained a relative oasis of peace.This is not to say there were no