title: Historyczne uwarunkowania powstania ormiańskich i azerbejdżańskich partii politycznych na przełomie XIX i XX w
abstract: THE PRIMARY IMPETUS for what was to become the Armenian-Muslim conflict lay in Russian imperial expansion. At the time of Ivan the Terrible, circa the sixteenth century, Russians began a policy of expelling Muslims from lands they had conquered. Over the next three hundred years, Muslims, many of them Turks, were killed or driven out of what today is Ukraine, Crimea and the Caucasus. In the Caucasus region, 1.2 million Circassians and Abazians were either expelled or killed by Russians. Members 
journal: Athenaeum Polskie Studia Politologiczne