Why read Muslim Resistance to the Tsar?

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

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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.

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Stephen Badalyan Riegg

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This is the go-to book to understand how the Chechens, Dagestanis, and their neighbors held off the mighty Russian armies for several decades in the 1800s.

Gammer’s military history isn’t always a page-turner, but it is chock-full of clear explanations for the long success of Shamil, the warlord who defied successive Romanovs and united the fragmented peoples of the North Caucasus into a resilient resistance movement that tarnished far and wide the image of tsarist Russia as an imperial juggernaut.

From Stephen's list on The best books to understand how the Russian Empire engaged the Caucasus.