TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ware,Robert
AU  - Kisriev,Enver
TI  - Dagestan: Russian Hegemony and Islamic Resistance in the North Caucasus
SN  - 9781317473459
AV  - DK511.D2 -- W37 2010eb 
U1  - 947.52 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Caucasus, Northern (Russia) -- Relations -- Russia
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- 1. Introduction: Where Mountains Rise -- Vertical versus Horizontal -- The Arrival of Islam -- A History of Imperial Failures -- Confrontation and Compromise Among Competing Forms of Social Organization -- 2. Murids and Tsars: Islamic Ideology as an Antidote to Russian Colonialism -- The Repression of the Islamic Leadership Under Military Rule -- Revolutions and the Resurgence of Islamic Organization -- 3. Soviet Rule in the North Caucasus: Betrayal of Islam and Construction of Ethnicity -- The Betrayal of Islam in Dagestan -- Soviet Ethnic Construction and Subsequent Disintegration -- Ethnic Construction and Accommodation in Dagestan -- 4. Democratic Dagestan: Ethnic Accommodation in the Constitutional Djamaat -- The Collapse of Central Authority and the Rise of Ethnic Politics -- New Roles for the Traditional Djamaat -- Renewed Nationalism and Recycled Elites -- Ethnic Protests and Emerging Elites -- Magomedov's Political Art -- The Constitutional Djamaat -- The Consociational Djamaat -- Dagestan's Electoral System -- Consociational Inadvertency -- The Corruption of Dagestan's Executive -- Electoral Corruption in Dagestan -- Conclusion -- 5. The Islamic Factor: Revival and Radicalism -- Arrival of Wahhabism -- Wahhabi Doctrines and Ideology -- Wahhabism's Ambivalent Appeal -- Origins of Wahhabism in Dagestan -- Wahhabism from a Dagestani Perspective -- Elites' Views of Wahhabism -- 6. Conflict and Catharsis: Why Dagestanis Fought to Remain in Russia -- Dagestani Opinions -- Northern Exposure -- Cross-Border Political Realignment in Chechnya and Dagestan -- Claims of the Chechen-Akkins in Novolakskii Raion -- Official Recognition of the DUMD -- Dagestan's "Northern Alliance; 7. Russian Recentralization and Islamic Resistance: Stepping on the Same Rake -- Dagestan's Ethnic Electoral Districts in the Russian Constitutional Court -- Constitutional Amendments -- Ethnic Rights -- Dagestan's National Assembly Election: March 16, 2003 -- Parties and Presidents -- Terrorist Attacks and Assassinations -- After Beslan -- The Federal Report on Conditions in Dagestan -- Regime Change -- 8. Conclusion: A Gathering Darkness -- A New President and a New Bureaucracy -- Why Is Dagestan Destabilizing? -- Appendix: Miskindji Village Protests -- Notes -- Index -- About the Authors
N2  - Like other majority Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union, the republic of Dagestan, on Russia's southern frontier, has become contested territory in a hegemonic competition between Moscow and resurgent Islam. This book presents a path breaking study of this volatile state far from the world's gaze
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