Bitter choices
Subtitle: loyalty and betrayal in the Russian conquest of the North Caucasus
By: Michael Khodarkovsky
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780801449727
Subjects: Revolutionaries; Autonomy and independence movements; Cossacks; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The frontiers of the North Caucasus; title: Atarshchikov's childhood; title: Journey through the northeast Caucasus; title: Inside Ermolov's "iron fist"; title: St. Petersburg and Poland; title: Return to the North Caucasus; title: Interpreter and administrator; title: Russian policies and alternatives; title: The first desertion; title: From Semën Atarshchikov to Hajret Muhammed.