 | Bitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus Michael Khodarkovsky's book tells the story of Semen Atarshchikov, a single man with multiple allegiances, and provides a concise and compelling history of the mountainous region between the Black and Caspian Seas. Michael Khodarkovsky is Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Where Two Worlds Met: The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600-1771 , also from Cornell, and Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800 . |
