28 research outputs found
Thomas Sanders, Ernest Tucker, Gary Hamburg, eds., The Russian-Muslim confrontation in the Caucasus
This is a most extraordinary book at least on two counts. First, academics in the humanities, unlike their colleagues in sciences and medicine, are usually known to be staunch individualists who are extremely shy of cooperating, not to say of sharing information and ideas, with others. This book is a rare exception, being the result of such collaboration. Second, it contains not one but two narratives â translations of sources from the two sides of a conflict â in âan experiment in listening ..
Thomas Sanders, Ernest Tucker, Gary Hamburg, eds., The Russian-Muslim confrontation in the Caucasus
This is a most extraordinary book at least on two counts. First, academics in the humanities, unlike their colleagues in sciences and medicine, are usually known to be staunch individualists who are extremely shy of cooperating, not to say of sharing information and ideas, with others. This book is a rare exception, being the result of such collaboration. Second, it contains not one but two narratives â translations of sources from the two sides of a conflict â in âan experiment in listening ..
Comment se dĂ©barrasser dâun Ă©chec
RĂ©sumĂ©Lâarticle prĂ©sente une lettre inĂ©dite du prince Mihail SemenoviÄ Voroncov au marĂ©chal Auguste-FrĂ©dĂ©ric-Louis Viesse de Marmont dans laquelle Voroncov apporte sa version personnelle de la campagne quâil a menĂ©e en 1845 dans le Caucase, campagne connue dans lâhistoriographie russe comme lâ« expĂ©dition de Dargo » (darginskaja ekspedicija). AprĂšs lâĂ©norme Ă©chec que fut cette expĂ©dition, le prince se trouvait dans une position trĂšs difficile : tandis quâofficiellement la campagne Ă©tait cĂ©lĂ©brĂ©e comme une victoire, officieusement les autoritĂ©s russes imputaient Ă Voroncov la responsabilitĂ© de la dĂ©faite. Dans lâincapacitĂ© de faire connaĂźtre sa propre version des Ă©vĂ©nements, le prince le fit dans cette lettre Ă un ami.AbstractHow to disengage oneself from a defeat : A letter from Prince Vorontsov to MarĂ©chal Marmont.This article presents a hithereto unpublished letter from Prince Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov to MarĂ©chal Auguste-FrĂ©dĂ©ric-Louis Wiesse de Marmont which brings Vorontsovâs personal version of what happened in his campaign of 1845 in the Caucasus, known in Russian historiography as the âDargo Expeditionâ (darginskaia ekspeditsiia). Following the colossal failure of this expedition Vorontsov found himself in an impossible position : While officially the expedition was celebrated as a success, unofficially the Russian authorities put the responsibility for the defeat on Vorontsov. Unable to voice his own version, the prince did so in this letter to a friend
Vetluga Memoir. a Turkish Prisoner of war in Russia, 1916-1988.
Donated by Klaus KreiserBook Reviews.; Vetluga Memoir. a Turkish Prisoner of war in Russia, 1916-1988 by Mehmet Arif OÌlçen, Introduction and Epilogue by Ali Nejat OÌlçen (ed.), translated and edited by Gary Leiser. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995. pp.246, index.ÂŁ36.00/{dollar}39.35.; Reprinted from : Middle Eastern Studies
Dagiestan: Tradition and Survival. By Robert Chenciner. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. xii, 308 pp. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. $49.95, hard bound.
Was General KlĂŒge-von-Klugenau Shamil's Desmichels ?
Moshe Gammer, Was General Kluge-von-Klugenau Shamil's Desmichels?
After his accession to power, the Russians left Shamil in peace for more than a year and a half, which enabled the imam to consolidate his position in Daghestan. Already at the time, there was suspicion that the local Russian commander Franz Kluge-von-Klugenau had concluded an agreement with Shamil. Although categorically denied by Klugenau, this suspicion found its way to one Russian pre-revolutionary author. (For obvious reasons Russian as well as Soviet historiography disregarded the issue completely.) This article presents the available evidence which is, one must emphasize, circumstantial only to the existence of such an agreement and to its stipulations. Analyzing the benefits of such an agreement to either party, it discusses Klugenau's motives for such an initiative contradicting the official policy. The article then notes the resemblances between this affair, and the agreement signed by Desmichels with 'Abd al Qùdir. Like in all resemblances in history, however, the differences between the two affairs are much more significant than the resemblances.Moshe Gammer, Le général Kluge-von-Klugenau a-t-il été le Desmichels de Chamil ?
AprĂšs l'accession de Chamil au pouvoir, les Russes le laissĂšrent en paix pour plus d'un an et demi ce qui permit Ă l'imam de consolider sa position au Daghestan. DĂ©jĂ Ă cette Ă©poque, on suspectait le commandant russe local F. KlƱge-von-Klugenau d'avoir conclu un accord avec Chamil. En dĂ©pit des dĂ©nĂ©gations catĂ©goriques de Klugenau, ces doutes gagnĂšrent un auteur russe prĂ©-rĂ©volutionnaire. (Pour des raisons Ă©videntes, l'historiographie, aussi bien russe que soviĂ©tique, a complĂštement nĂ©gligĂ© cette question). Dans le prĂ©sent article, l'auteur fournit les preuves disponibles - lesquelles, on doit le souligner, ne sont que des preuves indirectes - de l'existence d'un accord de cette sorte et de ses clauses. En analysant les avantages d'un tel accord pour les deux parties, il discute les raisons qui avaient poussĂ© Klugenau Ă prendre pareille initiative en contradiction avec la politique officielle. Il observe alors les analogies entre cette affaire et l'accord signĂ© par Desmichels avec Abd al-Qadir. Cependant, comme dans toutes les similitudes de l'histoire, les diffĂ©rences entre ces deux affaires sont beaucoup plus rĂ©vĂ©latrices que les ressemblances.Gammer Moshe. Was General KlĂŒge-von-Klugenau Shamil's Desmichels ?. In: Cahiers du monde russe et soviĂ©tique, vol. 33, n°2-3, Avril-Septembre 1992. pp. 207-221
The Beginnings of the Naqshbandiyya in DÄghestÄn and the Russian Conquest of the Caucasus
The beginnings of the Naqshbandiyya in Daghestan and the Russian conquest of the caucasus.
Donated by Klaus KreiserReprinted from : [Die Welt des Islams, Vol. 34 (1994)]
9. Nationalisme(s), Islam(s) et Politique au Daghestan
La dissolution du Parti Communiste dâUnion soviĂ©tique (et de lâURSS elle-mĂȘme) en 1991 et lâeffondrement consĂ©cutif de son idĂ©ologie marxiste-lĂ©niniste laissĂšrent un vide organisationnel et idĂ©ologique profondĂ©ment ressenti par tous les Ătats indĂ©pendants qui lui succĂ©dĂšrent, ainsi que par les rĂ©publiques autonomes de la FĂ©dĂ©ration de Russie. Perçus au dĂ©part comme idĂ©ologies alternatives pour la mobilisation et la lĂ©gitimation des nouveaux pouvoirs, le nationalisme et lâislamisme (ou la soli..