Provides a historical background for the current conflicts in the southern, Moslem, area of the newly reformed Russian Federation. Going back to the time of Ivan the Terrible, and forward to repercussions of the 1991 coup attempt, documents how the Caucasus Mountains are the anvil on which the Russian hammer has often broken. The eight studies emerged from a June 1988 symposium in London. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
