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Shamil
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
SHAMIL (1797 – 1871), the most famous...Asia. Born in Gimri, modern Dagestan, Shamil demonstrated an early skill with weapons...jihad against Russia under the leadership of Shamil's mentor, the first imam of Dagestan...
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Caucasian Wars
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...resistance leader emerged in the person of Shamil, an Avar who headed a spiritual movement...with military and administrative savvy, Shamil forged an alliance of mountain tribes...the war. Although the true center of Shamil's strength lay in the mountains of eastern...
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Tsakhurs
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Islamic Caucasian peoples under the leadership of Shamil. Many Tsakhurs joined Shamil's army. In 1852, to counteract this source...many of their settlements. In 1861, after the Shamil revolt was crushed, the Tsakhurs were allowed...
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Chechen-Russian Conflict
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
...control for several more decades. In the 1830s, Muslim leader Shamil prosecuted a campaign of guerrilla warfare against the Russians...its attention to the Chechen problem, however, it crushed Shamil's revolt. In 1917, the new Bolshevik government created...
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Adyge
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...nationalities policies, soviet; nationalities policies, tsarist; shamil bibliography Baddeley, John F. (1908). The Russian Conquest...Gammer, Moshe. (1994). Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan. London: Frank...
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Dargins
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Gulistan Treaty made Daghestan, including Dargi territory, part of Russia. Although the Dargins were not in the imamate of Shamil, they participated in its struggle for independence. Suffering both social and colonial oppression, they frequently protested...
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Politkovskaya, Anna
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Politkovskaya already had made some prominent enemies because of her journalistic exposés, but for this one she was taken into custody and accused of spying on behalf of Shamil Basayev, the Chechen warlord. For three days in Februa
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Chechnya
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...elected to succeed him. Russian forces killed Maskhadov, who was considered a moderate Chechen rebel leader, in 2005 and Shamil Baseyev, a notorious and significant rebel commander, in 2006. Alkhanov resigned as president in 2007 after a power struggle...
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Naqshbandi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...centuries, Naqshbandis played a role in reformist and anticolonial resistance movements. Among the numerous examples are Shaykh Shamil's resistance to Russian imperialism in Daghestan in the nineteenth century, the active role of the Naqshbandiya in the mojahedin...
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Avars
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...leader of Caucasian resistance against the encroachment of the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century was an Avar man named Shamil. Curiously, his power base was centered not among his own people, but among the Chechens immediately to the west. In the...
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