1st Edition
Muslim Reformers and the Bolsheviks The Case of Daghestan
Introduction 1. Histori(ographi)cal Background: The Russian Revolution and Early Soviet Rule in Daghestan (1917-1929) 2. The Concept of "Freedom" and the Issue of the Imamate in the Revolutionary Discourse of the Daghestani Reformists 3. The Visions of Daghestan’s Future in Debates on Education and on the Language of Instruction 4. The New Scopes of the Islamic Discourse: Inner-Islamic and Soviet Trajectories of the 1920s in the Journal Bayān al-Ḥaqā’iq Conclusion
Biography
Naira E. Sahakyan is a Senior Researcher at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Armenia
"The book remains essential reading for scholars of the Caucasus, Islamic intellectual history, and Soviet nationalities policy. It complicates simple binaries of 'collaboration versus resistance' with a pragmatic, locally textured perspective. The book shows how revolutionary language (such as 'freedom' and 'progress') was translated into Islamic categories, and how rival Muslim factions contested authority under the shadow of Soviet power."
Heghine Barseghyan, Ab Imperio, 2025
