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К вопросу о ходе и основных этапах восстания в Чечне в 1877 году

Author: Исмаилова А. И.
Year of publication: 2007
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Nokhchi (Chechens)
Publication rights: free (CyberLeninka: CC BY 4.0 (licence stated on the article page))

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Where the knowledge base cites it

This material is cited in 9 places.

Campaigns

• "Mow Down Everything, Beat and Hang Without Mercy": Suppression of the 1877 Uprising and the Executions in Grozny (1877-1878)

  Ismailova: "The burning of auls, the deportation of the population, the destruction of crops - these are the main methods of struggle that the tsarist command applies with merciless consistency"

  Our forces will keep arriving; just mow down everything without pity, beat and hang without mercy"

Procedures

• "Mow Down Everything, Beat and Hang Without Mercy": Suppression of the 1877 Uprising and the Executions in Grozny (1877-1878) — technique Punitive Expeditions

  The auls of Almak, Dylym and Burtunay with their hamlets were destroyed"

  The punitive expedition destroyed the auls, and the crops it ravaged and trampled down"

  Ismailova, defended every saklia (a highlander's house) "despite the murderous artillery fire"

• "Mow Down Everything, Beat and Hang Without Mercy": Suppression of the 1877 Uprising and the Executions in Grozny (1877-1878) — technique Terror

  Ismailova from the imperial publication "Materials for the Description of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78"

• "Mow Down Everything, Beat and Hang Without Mercy": Suppression of the 1877 Uprising and the Executions in Grozny (1877-1878) — technique Total Destruction of Infrastructure

  The order of Colonel Lokhvitsky of 17 July 1877 for the Cheberloy uchastok (administrative section) prescribed: "to raze to the ground the villages of Nizheloy, Rigakhoy and Nuy-Khoy"

  The inhabitants hid in the forests"

• "Mow Down Everything, Beat and Hang Without Mercy": Suppression of the 1877 Uprising and the Executions in Grozny (1877-1878) — technique Artificial Famine

  Svistunov, head of the Terek oblast, wrote to Smekalov on 18 August 1877: "As for Benoy and Zandak, they must be deported to Siberia to a man, or, if these scoundrels refuse, all of them must be killed off in winter like cockroaches and destroyed by famine"

• "Mow Down Everything, Beat and Hang Without Mercy": Suppression of the 1877 Uprising and the Executions in Grozny (1877-1878) — technique Hostage-Taking

  Svistunov, head of the Terek oblast, ordered the head of the Argun okrug on 20 August 1877: "In the event not only of any aul receiving the mutineers, but of the slightest disorder in it or disobedience to the authorities, you will send the amanats of that aul to Grozny, and I will have them shot" (amanat - a person the empire took from a community as a hostage)

• "Mow Down Everything, Beat and Hang Without Mercy": Suppression of the 1877 Uprising and the Executions in Grozny (1877-1878) — technique Deportation

  the plan for the wholesale deportation of the Salatavians, "up to 3000 souls," to the northern governorates was cut down to 200 people only for lack of escort troops

• "Mow Down Everything, Beat and Hang Without Mercy": Suppression of the 1877 Uprising and the Executions in Grozny (1877-1878) — technique Labor Exploitation

  The order of Colonel Lokhvitsky of 17 July 1877 for the Cheberloy uchastok obliged the punished themselves to cut a road for the troops into their own mountains: "the entire uchastok is to be obliged right now, within the very shortest time, to make a wide forest clearing (proseka) from the Bosoevskaya mountain to the Sharo-Argun river over a stretch of upwards of 6 versts" (a verst is slightly over a kilometer)

• "Mow Down Everything, Beat and Hang Without Mercy": Suppression of the 1877 Uprising and the Executions in Grozny (1877-1878) — technique Bribery of Elites

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