Allgemeines

Modern History of the Caucasus 

(JTB 241)

Associate Professor Adrian Brisku, PhD

Doctoral Student, Lamiya Panahova

Department of Russian & East European Studies, Charles University

https://cuni.academia.edu/adrianBrisku

adrian.brisku@fsv.cuni.cz; lamiya.panahova@fsv.cuni.cz

Annotation 

Particularly since the ‘long nineteenth century’, the peoples, nationalities, and nations in the Caucasus region – comprised of the North Caucasus, small republics at the southern border of the Russian Federation and of the South Caucasus, the nation-states of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia adjacent to it – have had a shared history in terms of tsarist and Soviet Russian occupation, control and co-option, interethnic conflict and cooperation as well as social (under)development. Starting with a conceptual discussion of the region, its linguistic, ethnic, and cultural diversity as well as its pre-Tsarist political history, this course traces the political, economic, and cultural processes in the North and South Caucasus has undergone in the tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet periods, underscoring factors, discourses and legacies that have shaped its past, still impact its present and potentially orient its future.