Tsar’s Abolitionists

Liubov Kurtynova-D'Herlugnan, Kandidat (1989) in History, Institute of African and Asian Studies, Moscow State University, Ph.D. (1997) in History, State University of New York, Binghamton, specializes in Middle Eastern and Caucasian cultures. She is currently teaching courses on Russian history and modern Turkey at Northwestern University.

• IntroductionChapter One: the Caucasus, Geography and People•Why was Slave Trade so Important for the Caucasian SocietiesChapter Two: Christians in Heterodox Captivity•The Historical Roots of Russian Abolitionism in the Caucasus•The Two Abolitionisms: The European Enterprise and a Distant Cousin from Russia•Historical Myth and Mythical History: Muscovy and the Caucasus before the 18th Century•The Beginning: First Attempts to Ban Slave TradeChapter Three: The Southern CaucasusChapter Four: The Northern CaucasusConclusion: Explaining an Unlikely AbolitionismBibliographyIndex