In the Caucasus where Russians had been hard
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- Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference pp. 353-356 · open book
In the Caucasus where Russians had been hard put to subdue mountain peoples, Shamil, an imam from Dagestan and Chechnya, began a long campaign against Russian aggression that lasted from the 1 8 3 0s until his surrender in 1859.