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Ottomans, 8
Tishkov, Valery, 82
Pankisi Gorge, 224, 229
Todashev, Ibrahim, 238
Pelton, Robert Young, 217
Tolstoy, Leo, 8
Pervomaiskoye (Dagestani village), 106
Tsarnaev, Anzor, 232, 235–236
Plotnikov, William, 247, 248
Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar, xi, 255
Pushkin, Alexander, 8
Tsarnaev, Tamerlan: and Boston
Putin, Vladimir, 115, 142–145, 150, 151,
Marathon bombing, 231; in Dages-
155, 158, 192, 204, 210
tan, 243–253; online radicalization,
253–254; in United States, 234–236;
Qadiriya (Sufi) order, 38
youth in Kyrgyzstan and Dagestan,
232–233, 237
Raduyev, Salman, 105, 125, 156, 196
Tsarnaev, Zubeidat, 231, 236, 242
Red Army, 50, 52
Tsarni, Ruslan, 233, 239, 240
Red Cross, 128
Turkey, 49
Richmond, Walter, 16
Riyadus Salahin, 182, 187, 197, 199
US Army, 220–223
Russian Civil War, 36
USSR, 33, 34–81
Ryazan, 145
Udugov, Movladi, 119, 126, 132, 136
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Uighurs, 216, 218
war crimes, Russian, 98, 99, 173–179
Umarov, Doku, 16, 156, 168, 198–201
Wehrmacht, 47
Union of the Just, 245, 251
World War II, 46
University of Massachusetts Dart-
mouth, xii, 236
Yamadayev brothers, 129–131, 163
Untermenschen, 48
Yandarbiyev, Zelimkhan, 112, 120, 215
Urus Martan, 129
Yarysh Mardy, 110
Yeltsin, Boris, 83, 86, 87, 88, 94, 103, 111,
Vainakh, 4
117, 139, 143
Volgodonsk, 144
Yermolov, General Aleksey Petrovich,
13, 14, 19, 26
Wahhabis, 21, 40, 110, 111, 120, 121, 122,
124–141, 163, 199, 204, 199, 218, 219,
zachistkas (cleansings), 19, 177, 180
224, 244, 245; and Abdul Rashid
Zakayev, Akhmed, 208
Dostum, 218, 219
Zawahiri, Ayman, 215
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about the author
Dr. Brian Glyn Williams is professor of Islamic history at
the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, where he
received tenure in 2006 and teaches courses on warfare
and terrorism in Islamic Eurasia. Prior to teaching at
UMass-Dartmouth he taught Ottoman history at the
University of London’s School of Oriental and African
Studies. He has carried out fieldwork in Islamic Eurasia
ranging from Kosovo to the Caucasus to Kazakhstan to
Kashmir to Afghanistan to tribal regions of Pakistan.
This fieldwork has helped him write The Crimean Tatars:
From Soviet Genocide to Putin’s Conquest (2015); The
Last Warlord: The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan
Warrior who Led us Special Forces in Toppling the Taliban
Regime (2013); Predators: The cia’s Drone War on Al Qaeda
(2013), and Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America’s
Longest War (2011).
Dr. Williams earned his PhD in Central Asian history at
the University of Wisconsin in 1999, a master’s degree in
Russian history at Indiana University in 1992, and a master’s
in Central Eurasian studies at Indiana University in 1990.
He has published articles in journals such as Journal of
the Royal Asiatic Society, Central Asian Survey, Small
Wars and Insurgencies, Terrorism Monitor, West Point’s
Counter Terrorism Sentinel, Jane’s Intelligence Review,
Militant Leadership Monitor, Jane’s Terrorism and Security
Monitor, Middle East Policy, Foreign Policy, and is a regular
contributor to the Huffington Post.
Dr. Williams can be reached at bwilliams@umassd.edu,
and he has photographs and articles from his fieldwork on
his website at brianglynwilliams.com.
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