Mehmet Tütüncü (dir.), The Caucasus: War and Peace. New World Disorder in Caucasia, Haarlem 1998, SOTA, 224 p.

The Caucasus was something apart... Caucasian and Oriental music had its own particular pulse, a saccade rhythm of drum beats, the insistent, fevered wildness of sword dances... But these fierce or voluptuous rythms, like Lermontov's evocations of the Caucasus, and the Caucasian stories of Tolstoy and Bestoujev-Marlinsky had not yet become part of the Russian consciousness. For the most part the Caucasus was still a faraway battlefield, a distant graveyard for the legion of recruits wh..