The Circassian Genocide by Walter Richmond
A detailed historical account of the Russian Empire’s nineteenth-century conquest of the northwestern Caucasus and the systematic campaign of mass killings, starvation, and forced deportations that destroyed much of the Circassian population and society. Drawing on Russian, Ottoman, and Western archives alongside eyewitness testimony, it documents the policies and military operations that produced the mass expulsion of hundreds of thousands to the Ottoman Empire, the high mortality during transit and exile, and the deliberate nature of the campaign. The work situates these events within imperial strategy and diplomatic contexts, assesses competing casualty estimates and historiographical debates, and traces the long-term consequences for Circassian communities and their diasporic memory.
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- 2013
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- American
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- English
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