Muslim Resistance to the Tsar : Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan

First published in 2003. 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 this controversial subject. Much has been written over the years about the Muslim 'Murid movement and its leader Shamil, who resisted the Tsarist Russian expansion into Chechan and Daghestan for more than a quarter of a century. This new study, based on painstaking 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.