Dagestan: Russian Hegemony and Islamic Resistance in the North Caucasus

Half-title
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Contents 
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Acknowledgments
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Vertical versus Horizontal
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The Arrival of Islam
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A History of Imperial Failures
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Confrontation and Compromise Among Competing Forms of Social Organization
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2. Murids and Tsars: Islamic Ideology as an Antidote to Russian Colonialism
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The Repression of the Islamic Leadership Under Military Rule
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Revolutions and the Resurgence of Islamic Organization
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3. Soviet Rule in the North Caucasus: Betrayal of Islam and Construction of Ethnicity
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The Betrayal of Islam in Dagestan
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Soviet Ethnic Construction and Subsequent Disintegration
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Ethnic Construction and Accommodation in Dagestan
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4. Democratic Dagestan: Ethnic Accommodation in the Constitutional Djamaat
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The Collapse of Central Authority and the Rise of Ethnic Politics
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New Roles for the Traditional Djamaat
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Renewed Nationalism and Recycled Elites
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Ethnic Protests and Emerging Elites
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Magomedov’s Political Art
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The Constitutional Djamaat
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The Consociational Djamaat
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Dagestan’s Electoral System
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Consociational Inadvertency
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The Corruption of Dagestan’s Executive
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Electoral Corruption in Dagestan
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Conclusion
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5. The Islamic Factor: Revival and Radicalism
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Arrival of Wahhabism
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Wahhabi Doctrines and Ideology
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Wahhabism’s Ambivalent Appeal
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Origins of Wahhabism in Dagestan
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Wahhabism from a Dagestani Perspective
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Elites’ Views of Wahhabism
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6. Conflict and Catharsis: Why Dagestanis Fought to Remain in Russia
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Dagestani Opinions
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Northern Exposure
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Cross-Border Political Realignment in Chechnya and Dagestan
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Claims of the Chechen-Akkins in Novolakskii Raion
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Official Recognition of the DUMD
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Dagestan’s “Northern Alliance”
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7. Russian Recentralization and Islamic Resistance: Stepping on the Same Rake
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Dagestan’s Ethnic Electoral Districts in the Russian: Constitutional Court
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Ethnic Rights
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Dagestan’s National Assembly Election: March 16, 2003
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Parties and Presidents
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Terrorist Attacks and Assassinations
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After Beslan
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The Federal Report on Conditions in Dagestan
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Regime Change
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8. Conclusion: A Gathering Darkness
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A New President and a New Bureaucracy
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Why Is Dagestan Destabilizing?
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Appendix: Miskindji Village Protests
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Notes
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Index
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About the Authors
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