Dagestan - History, Culture, Identity

The book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of Dagestan, a strategically important republic of the Russian Federation which borders Chechnya, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and its people. It outlines Dagestan’s rich and complicated history, from 5th c ACE to post USSR, as seen from the viewpoint of the Dagestani people.

Robert Chenciner was a Visiting Academic at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He was an honorary member of the Dagestan Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov is Head of the Ethnography Institute of the Dagestan Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation.