The Caucasus Syllabus
The Caucasus Syllabus is a continuously expanding project that seeks to curate and bring together the seminal as well as new academic perspectives on the complicated history of the Caucasus region and its environs. From linguistics and archeology to national histories, the Caucasus Syllabus aims to deliver a wide breadth of English-language scholarship that might be of interest to students at all levels of higher education, seasoned scholars, or anyone with a keen curiosity to learn about the Caucasus and the people who live in this fascinating region.
MONOGRAPHS
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
(Stanford University Press, 2024)
Claire P. Kaiser
Georgian and Soviet: Entitled Nationhood and the Specter of Stalin in the Caucasus
(Cornell University Press, 2023)
James H. Meyer
Red Star over the Black Sea: Nâzim Hikmet and his Generation (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Ian Lanzillotti
Land, Community, and the State in the Caucasus: Kabardino-Balkaria from Tsarist Conquest to Post-Soviet Politics
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
Timothy K. Blauvelt
Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet
Fiefdom: the Trials of Nestor Lakoba
(Routledge, 2021)
Krista A. Goff
Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking
Nations in the Soviet Caucasus
(Cornell University Press, 2021)
Stephen Badalyan Riegg
Russia's Entangled Embrace:
the Tsarist Empire and the Armenians, 1801-1914
(Cornell University Press, 2020)
(Cornell University Press, 2020)
Donald Rayfield
Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia
(Reaktion Books, 2019)
Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia
(Reaktion Books, 2019)
Thomas de Waal
The Caucasus: An Introduction
(Oxford University Press, 2019)
Ronald Grigor Suny
The Baku Commune, 1917-1918: Class and Nationality in the Russian Revolution
(Princeton University Press, 2019)
The Baku Commune, 1917-1918: Class and Nationality in the Russian Revolution
(Princeton University Press, 2019)
Jeronim Perovic
From Conquest to Deportation: The North Caucasus under Russian Rule
(Oxford University Press, 2018)
From Conquest to Deportation: The North Caucasus under Russian Rule
(Oxford University Press, 2018)
Bayram Balci
Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union
(Oxford University Press, 2018)
Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union
(Oxford University Press, 2018)
Firouzeh Mostashari
On the Religious Frontier: Tsarist Russia and Islam in the Caucasus
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017)
Antonio Sagona
The Archaeology of the Caucasus: From Earliest Settlements to the Iron Age
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
The Archaeology of the Caucasus: From Earliest Settlements to the Iron Age
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Eileen Kane
Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca
(Cornell University Press, 2015)
Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca
(Cornell University Press, 2015)
James Forsyth
The Caucasus: A History
(Cambridge University Press, 2015)
The Caucasus: A History
(Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Paul Manning
Love Stories: Language, Private Love, and Public Romance in Georgia
(University of Toronto Press, 2015)
Love Stories: Language, Private Love, and Public Romance in Georgia
(University of Toronto Press, 2015)
Ronald Grigor Suny
"They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide
(Princeton University Press, 2015)
"They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide
(Princeton University Press, 2015)
Neal Ascherson
Black Sea: Coasts and Conquests From Pericles to Putin
(Vintage Books, 2015)
Black Sea: Coasts and Conquests From Pericles to Putin
(Vintage Books, 2015)
Alex Marshall
The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule
(Routledge, 2012)
The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule
(Routledge, 2012)
Nicholas B. Breyfogle
Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus
(Cornell University Press, 2011)
Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia's Empire in the South Caucasus
(Cornell University Press, 2011)
Ryan Gingeras
Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1912-1923
(Oxford University Press, 2009)
Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1912-1923
(Oxford University Press, 2009)
Bruce Grant
The Captive and the Gift: Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus
(Cornell University Press, 2009)
Charles King
The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus
(Oxford University Press, 2008)
The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus
(Oxford University Press, 2008)
Michael Khodarkovsky
Bitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus
(Cornell University Press, 2004)
Bitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus
(Cornell University Press, 2004)
Austin Jersild
Orientalism and Empire: North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917
(McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002)
Orientalism and Empire: North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917
(McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002)
Susan Layton
Russian Literature and Empire:
Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy
(Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Russian Literature and Empire:
Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy
(Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Ronald Grigor Suny
The Making of the Georgian Nation
(Indiana University Press, 1994)
The Making of the Georgian Nation
(Indiana University Press, 1994)
Ronald Grigor Suny
Looking toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History
(Indiana University Press, 1993)
Looking toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History
(Indiana University Press, 1993)
David Marshall Lang
The Last Years of the Georgian Monarchy 1658–1832
(Columbia University Press, 1957)
The Last Years of the Georgian Monarchy 1658–1832
(Columbia University Press, 1957)
EDITED VOLUMES
Edited by Azamat Kumykov, Georges Mamoulia, Sophie Daniel
Diplomatic Dispatches about Circassia from the Consulate of France in Odessa, 1836-1840
(De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024)
Edited by Eileen M. Kane, Masha Kirasirova, and Margaret Litvin
Russian-Arab Worlds:
A Documentary History
(Oxford University Press, 2023)
Adrian Brisku & Timothy K. Blauvelt
The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic of 1918: Federal Aspirations, Geopolitics and National Projects
(Routledge, 2021)
The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic of 1918: Federal Aspirations, Geopolitics and National Projects
(Routledge, 2021)
Maria Polinsky, et al.
The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus
(Oxford University Press, 2020)
The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus
(Oxford University Press, 2020)
Galina Yemelianova & Laurence Broers
Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus
(Routledge, 2020)
Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus
(Routledge, 2020)
Timothy K. Blauvelt & Jeremy Smith
Georgia after Stalin: Nationalism and Soviet Power
(Routledge, 2018)
Georgia after Stalin: Nationalism and Soviet Power
(Routledge, 2018)
Ronald Grigor Suny, Fatma Müge Göçek, & Norman M. Naimark
A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire
(Oxford University Press, 2011)
A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire
(Oxford University Press, 2011)