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One of the better written books I've read in a long time.
I first saw this book in a hostel in Tbilisi, and after skimming through it I decided to pick it up once I got home. First of all, I would recommend you will enjoy this book a lot more if you have prior interest in Russian/Soviet history and the Caucasus. Otherwise, things may be a bit difficult to follow.That being said, Let Our Fame Be Great is an expertly researched, compelling chronicle of the struggles of a people that has so often been written off as a side show from events reaching from t...
If everyone were to read this book, the genocides of the Caucasus would've been recognised since its publication. The book covers the genocides that happened in the Caucasus with more focus on the wars in Chechnya (makes sense, since they are more recent and the author was alive and a reporter then) and written scripts of interviews with the peoples living in diaspora. Very convenient to those who are not of Caucasian (people of the Caucasus) decent, as they get to know about the history and nat...
After reading the novel 'A Constellation of Vital Phenomena' a month or so ago, which is about the wars Russia brutally and relentlessly waged against the people of Chechnya, I realised how little, in fact nothing, that I knew about this region. Sitting here in the southernmost regions of the world, on an island surrounded by water I have no comprehension at all of being surrounded by other countries/nations/states. The closest I get to all that is my neighbours. I felt after reading that novel,...
Before picking up this book I must admit I had very little awareness of this region. My only real memory is in relation to the Chechen people via the brief snapshots of news that have stuck in my mind. Bullough is obviously well travelled; his knowledge is deep and the accounts of the displaced peoples are very intimate. The horrors these people suffered are told in a part history/part travelogue manner that is easy to read. There is obviously only one side of events on display here, but when th...
In the afternoon of April 15, 2013, I was listening to the radio. An announcer interrupted the broadcast to report that there had been a blast at the Boston Marathon. He was careful not to attribute the bombing to any one group – because we are all afraid of appearing to stereotype one group as terrorists. Indeed, he insisted, the Boston blast might have been caused by a ruptured gas pipe. After Chechen refugees Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were identified as the Boston Marathon bombers, one o...
Oliver Bullough takes you with him on his trip through history and geography of Chechnya. The word trip is an understatement, however calling it an adventure would be an affront to the Caucasus Mountain people. Chechens, Circassians, and Turks have lived under the heavy yoke of Russia without a proper recount of their plight. Small independent documentaries, news clippings, and little word of mouth has revealed little about this mysterious final region of tribal Caucasian people. It is a wonder
This book purports to be not simply a history but a travelogue as well. I believe it succeeds as both. If you seek objectivity in your historical literature you will not find it here. Mr. Bullough is outspoken in his criticism of Russian intrusion into the Caucasus. His one-on-one interviews with a wide variety of descendants of the mountain tribes of the Caucasus lends an authenticity to the story he tells.For me, this was an eye-opening account of a region about which I knew little. Now I have...
Balanced historical and contemporaneous account of the continuing struggles of the peoples of The Caucasus. Generously peppered with personal accounts too. Worth while read into the experiences of these oft forgotten peoples.
It’s amazing to pick up a book from a random stack and find it so intriguing. This is one. It’s all about the Caucasus’s Mountains, with the ever constant battle between Russia and Islam. There is where holocausts got started. The story of slave trade of white children to the Turks, and the constant battle in Chechena. Shamil as a hero and a folk hero, and a Russian dignitary. The subtitle is the Journey among the defiant people of the Caucuses, and the author makes it real. I just loved this, b...
Amazing book!Should be required reading. For everyone! But especially all those politicians: American, European but definitely the Russians. It's not just about the Caucasus, since the filthy practice of ethnic cleansing isn't restricted to that part of the world. I knew lots of bad things about the Russian brand of colonialism (it's almost as bad as the British). But the contents of this book? I didn't know all this.I was living in Tomsk when the 1994 Chechen war started. Tomsk was one of the p...
This is history and journalism at its finest and most compassionate. And, the echoes of history ring loudly in this moment, and leave me fearful for what fate awaits Ukraine. This, the last sentence of this heartbreakingly brilliant book, will haunt my thoughts in the weeks and months to come:'But the Russians have not preserved the memories of their wars for the Caucasus, and the ghosts of their victims will haunt them till they do '
A shocking book. This book exposes the fraud of the Soviet Union's support for national liberation movements while savagely persecuting and practicing genocide against ethnic minorities in its own borders. The savage wars of conquest, expansion and ethnic cleansing of indigenous people's in Russia and the Soviet Union is ignored as an inconvenient truth by their fellow travellers on the Left. The vast slave trade of women and children from the Caucases into the Middle East that continued into th...
