Download or read book Muslim Resistance to the Tsar written by Moshe Gammer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003. 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 this controversial subject.