Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Murids and Tsars; Chapter 3 Soviet Rule in the North Caucasus; Chapter 4 Democratic Dagestan; Chapter 5 The Islamic Factor; Chapter 6 Conflict and Catharsis; Chapter 7 Russian Recentralization and Islamic Resistance; Chapter 8 Conclusion;
Robert Bruce Ware Since completing his doctorate at Oxford
University, Robert Bruce Ware has conducted field research in the
North Caucasus, and has authored numerous articles on the region in
scholarly and popular publications. He is a professor of philosophy
at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.,
Enver Kisriev Enver Kisriev, a Dagestani sociologist, is studying
the impact made by traditional institutions of Caucasian
communities on the nature of modern political processes. With roots
in the Lezgin town of Akhty, he was born in 1947 in Makhachkala,
where he graduated from the Dagestan State University majoring in
history. In 1972–75 he was a postgraduate in sociology at the
Russian Academy of Sciences. After graduation he continued his
research work in the Department of Sociology of the Dagestan branch
of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1979 he defended his thesis
titled “National and International in Ethnic and Cultural Processes
in Dagestan.” In 1988 he became director of the department. In
1994–98, he was an adviser to the chairperson of the Dagestani
Parliament while simultaneously continuing his research at the
Dagestani Academy of Sciences. In 2001, he moved to Moscow to work
at the Moscow branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in 2003
he became head of the Sector for Caucasian Studies at the Center
for Civilizational and Regional Studies of the Russian Academy of
Sciences. He is the author of more than 200 publications.
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