Furthermore, battle units can be released from Stalingrad to speed the tide of Russian advance to the west. “In the Caucasus, too, there has been heavy fighting.” The Russians took Georgievsk ...

Charles King, The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 18. For a substantial Russian history of the war, see Mark Bliev, Russia and the Highlanders of ...

The region in the South Caucasus has been at the center of an ... is likely the last in a series of tumultuous battles over who can claim the disputed enclave, a question shaped in modern times ...

The Battle of Stalingrad ... Stalingrad also acted as a gateway to the oil fields of the Caucasus as well as to Central Asia and the Caspian Sea. For Hitler, who had in June 1941 pulled out ...

In the three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moscow has not recognized the statehood of the three countries of the South Caucasus. This imperial mindset, which continues to ...

For much of the past three decades, the South Caucasus has been internally fragmented, with former imperial hegemon Russia attempting to manipulate the region’s multiple conflicts to keep Armenia, ...

As the Russian Empire expanded southward into the Caucasus, it launched a brutal military campaign against the indigenous Circassian people. After decades of fierce resistance, the Russians ...