"Circassian culture was often exoticised within Russia ... we carried a kind of internalised self-doubt, shaped by Soviet and post-Soviet attitudes that framed local culture as backward"

A story true of every local culture and independent nation that Moscow tried to colonise

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/21/soviet-attitudes-framed-local-culture-as-backward-the-record-label-standing-up-to-russian-imperialism

#Circassians #Caucasus #imperialism #colonisation #genocide #soviethistory #histodons #ussr #soviet #music #russia #russiaukrainewar #ukrainewar #musichistory #religion #islam #ethnography #punk

"Between the 1850s and World War I, about one million #NorthCaucasianMuslims fled to the #OttomanEmpire. Some, like the #Circassians, ran from a Russian perpetrated genocide. Others, like #Chechens, #Dagestanis, and others the violence of #RussianColonization."

#EurasianKnot welcomes #VladimirHamedTroyansky to discuss his book #EmpireOfRefugees

https://www.euraknot.org/muslim-refugees-in-the-ottoman-empire/

#OttomanHistory #RussianHistory #colonialViolence #NorthCaucasus #CircassianGenocide #books @histodons @bookstodon @russia

Polish newspaper Przyjaciel Ludu - Feb 13th, 1847.

A poem titled “Śpiew górali Kaukaskich - The Song of the Caucasian Highlanders”.

The corresponding article mentions that the Polish exiles in the Caucasus heard this song from the #Circassians.

The ethnic cleansing of Free Circassian Nationalism.

November 2016: Australia, the Anglican Church, the Catholic Church and Islam.

https://open.substack.com/pub/freecircassians/p/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-free-circassian?r=2x5rrh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#Circassians #Adyghe #Cherkess #EthnicCleansing #Australia

Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims And The Late Ottoman State #Circassians #Jordan @jordan

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240222-empire-of-refugees-north-caucasian-muslims-and-the-late-ottoman-state/

We Free Circassian Nationalists stand with #Israel and all other besieged minorities around the globe.

#Jews #Kurds #Yazidis #Yezidis #Circassians #Adyghe #Cherkess

Адыгэм я лъэпкъгъэкlуэд, by Ramil Niyazov-Adyljan

translated by Elina Alter, Hilah Kohen, Ainsley Morse & Elaine Wilson #kazakh #circassians #ottomans #russia #genocide #migration #poetry

https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2023/march/adygem-ya-lepkgeklued-ramil-niyazov-adyljan

I have a new article in Kritika! It is on the attempted return of the North Caucasian diaspora in the Middle East to its homeland within the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation since the 1960s. https://doi.org/10.1353/kri.2023.a904386

The article looks at the relationship between North Caucasians—especially #Circassians—in #Turkey, #Jordan, and #Syria with the #Caucasus. It focuses on (a) #Soviet propaganda tours for the diaspora and (b) diasporic efforts to secure the right of return to #Russia.

I show that the Soviet government's and the Circassian diaspora's goals did not align. The USSR wanted to extend its soft power in the Middle East through the diaspora, while Circassians wanted a pathway to repatriation. Yet these contacts in the 1960s–80s paved the way for transnational Circassian activism and repatriation demands after 1991. The article is based on archival research in Nalchik & fieldwork in Jordan and Istanbul.

Feel free to send me a message for a full pdf of the article!