Highlanders of the North Caucasus in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Problems of history, historiography and source study

In the monograph of well-known specialists in the field of the history of the North Caucasus of the Soviet period, the most acute problems of the participation of mountain peoples in the events of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 are analyzed: Features of organizational and mobilization work in the national regions of the North Caucasus and passing by mountaineers of military service, the history of national parts, occupation The regime, causes and scale of the phenomena of the collaborationism and the anti-Soviet rebel movement, the deportation of a number of peoples from the historical homeland. The paper presents a detailed analysis of the state of the historiographic and source-friendly development of the above topics. All these questions are subject to acute discussions and are often interpreted by extremely trendy in historical literature and journalism. The authors tried impartially based on a broad documentary material, to contribute to an objective study of the hospitality in the Great Patriotic War