Muslim Resistance To The Tsar Author:Moshe Gammer Much has been written about the Muslim Murid movement and its leader Shamil, who resisted the Tsarist Russian expansion into Chechan and Daghestan for more than quarter of a century. This study, based on research in multilingual archives, offers a fresh insight into a subject that generates constant controversy in Russian historiography and has ... more »often been misinterpreted by Western scholars.« less