By Andrew Andersen

 

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CAUCASUS

 

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     CONTENTS

      

        THIS SITE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

          MUCH MORE MATERIALS ARE TO BE ADDED SOON

          HOWEVER, THERE ARE STILL SOME MATERIALS

          TO READ BELOW

 

 

THE CAUCASUS: MEDIEVAL HISTORY

(Section 1:     387 - 1080 AD)

 

THE CAUCASUS:  MODERN HISTORY

( Section 1:     1446 - 1555 )

( Section 4:     1878 - 1916 )

( Section 5:     1917 - 1918 )

( Section 6:     1919 - 1920 )

 

 

    PLEASE ALSO SEE THE REGIONAL HISTORY OF:

 

ARMENIA

AZERBAIJAN

GEORGIA

CHECHNYA

ABKHAZIA

 

As well as of the

 

PONTIC GREEKS & THE EMPIRE OF TREBIZOND

 

 

SPECIAL TOPICS:

 

 

     THE COSSACKS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                      

 

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  RECOMMENDED READING:

  

Bremmer, Jan, & Taras, Ray,            New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations,

Cambridge University Press, 1997

 

Suny, Ronald Grigor,                     The Revenge of the Past:

                                                       Nationalism, Revolution & the Collapse of   

                                                       the Soviet Union,              

                                                       Stanford University Press, 1993

 

Transcaucasia, Nationalism & Social Change: Essays in the History of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan

The University of Michigan Press, 1999

 

The Black Book of Communism                    Harward University Press       2000

 

 

 

SUGGESTED ADDITIONAL READING:

 

Allen, W.E.D.: A History of the Georgian People [1932]

 

Armenian Assembly of America: The Karabakh Crisis: Historical/Political Background. [1988]

 

Curtis, G.E.: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia: Country Studies. [1995]

 

Daskhuranci, M.: A Hiistory of the Caucasian Albanians. [1961]

 

Denikin, A.: The Russian Turmoil. [1924]

 

Geiger, B.: Peoples and Languages of the Caucasus. [1959]

 

Iosseliani, P.: The Concise History of Georgian Church. [1883]

 

Kazemzadeh, F.: The Struggle for Transcaucasia: 1917-1921. [1951]

 

Lang, D.M.: The Last Days of the Georgian Monarchy, 1658-1832. [1957]

 

     : A Modern History of Georgia. [1962]

 

Maclean, F.: The Caucasus: The End of All the Earth. [1976]

 

Minorsky, V.: A History of Sharvan and Daruband. [1958]

 

Nersessian, S.: Armenia and the Byzantine Empire. [1947]

 

Panico, C.: Conflicts in the Caucasus: Russia's War in Chechnya. [1995]

 

Toumanoff, C.: Studies in Christian Caucasian History. [1963]