"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [366]-384) and index.
The North Caucasus : between gazavat and modern revolution, 1700-1905 -- 1905-1917 : the first crisis of modernity in the Caucasus -- 1917-1918 in the Caucasus--from world war to civil war -- 1919-1920 : the British and Denikin's Caucasus -- Insurgency, corruption, and the search for a new socialist order, 1920-25 -- Decossackization, demarcation, categorization : creating the Soviet Caucasus, 1920-27 -- Forging the proletariat : women, collectivization, and repression, 1928-1934 -- Dreams of unity, myths of power : the Caucasian diaspora -- The purges and industrial modernization : the Soviet Caucasus in the 1930s -- Dealing with "bandits" : war, ethnic cleansing and repression in the Soviet Caucasus, 1941-45 -- The final structural crisis of the Soviet state, 1953-91 -- Three dystopias of the post-Soviet Caucasus, 1991-2008 -- Afterword: The North Caucasus as a regional security complex : Vladimir Putin, pipelines, and the rebuilding of the Russian federal state