Caucasian origins -- Early medieval Caucasia : the seventh to tenth centuries -- The Caucasus, Persia, Turkestan, Azerbaijan, Europe : 10th-12th centuries -- The later Crusades, Mongols and Ottoman Turks, 13th-15th centuries -- Georgia, Shirvan and North Caucasus to the 15th century -- Caucasia between Persia and Ottoman Turkey -- The Caucasus and the Russians -- Caucasia in the eighteenth century -- Russia's conquest of the Caucasus -- World War and Russian Revolution -- Independent Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and North Caucasus -- White Russians, native insurrection, Bolshevik conquest -- The North and South Caucasus peoples, 1920-1939 -- The Second World War, Beria and Stalin -- Caucasia from Stalin's death to the 1980s (1) -- Caucasia from Stalin's death to the 1980s (2) -- The Caucasus and the end of the Soviet Union -- Armenia, Karabagh, Azerbaijan -- Georgia, 1987-1993 -- North Caucasus, 1987-1993 -- The Caucasus enters the twenty-first century -- Russian arbitrary politics and Georgian resurgence.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 830-865) and index.