The mountain movement and the white army in the North Caucasus in 1918-1919: the history of the failed union
Saint Petersburg State Forestry Engineering University; Nikolaev Alexander V. · Kavkazologiya, 2023
Collection summary
A scholarly article on the failed anti-Bolshevik alliance between the North Caucasus mountaineer movement and the White Army in 1918-1919.
Published in Kavkazologiya, this English-language article examines why the potential military-political alliance between the White Guards of southern Russia and liberal mountaineer figures of the North Caucasus never materialised in 1918-1919. Drawing on the Provisional Terek-Dagestan government, the 1918 Terek anti-Bolshevik uprising and the armed struggle against the Bolsheviks, it concludes that political ambitions on both sides doomed the anti-Bolshevik camp. Its relevance to this collection is indirect: it illuminates the northern flank of anti-Bolshevik conflict in the Caucasus but does not treat the Army of Islam or the Azerbaijan campaign directly.
The source's own abstract
The article is devoted to the problems related to the possible military-political alliance of the White Guards of the south of Russia and the mountain liberal figures during 1918-1919. It is proved that the prospects for such a combination of efforts were fully justified. Throughout 1917, the mountain and Terek Cossack leaders established quite successful relations based on a general rejection of the growing influence of the Bolsheviks in the Caucasus region. Attention is focused on the successful episodes of the anti-Bolshevik struggle: the Provisional Terek-Dagestan gov-ernment, the Terek anti-Bolshevik uprising of 1918, the armed struggle against the Bolsheviks in the North Caucasus. Conclusions are drawn that despite the obvious mutual benefit from joining forces to fight the Bolsheviks, the political ambitions of the leadership of the White Guards and mountain activists prevailed and eventually led to the defeat of all anti-Bolshevik forces in the North Caucasus.
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- Beyaz Ordu (Beyaz Muhafızlar)Geçici Terek-Dağıstan HükümetiTerek KazaklarıBolşevikler