Bitter Choices by Michael Khodarkovsky HARDBACK 9780801449727

Bitter Choices\nby Michael Khodarkovsky\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Michael Khodarkovsky\nTitle: Bitter Choices\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: European history\nPublisher: MB - Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2011\nISBN-13: 9780801449727\nISBN-10: 0801449723\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nRussia's attempt to consolidate its authority in the North Caucasus has exerted a terrible price on both sides since the mid-nineteenth century. Michael Khodarkovsky tells a concise and compelling history of the mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas during the centuries of Russia's long conquest (15001850s). The history of the region unfolds against the background of one man's life story, Sem\u00EBn Atarshchikov (18071845). Torn between his Chechen ident.