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{{Quotation|[[North Caucasus|North Caucasian]] resentment of the [[Russians]] for robbing them of their national history is doubled for the Daghestanis by the forced loss of their [[Arabic language|Arabic]] patrimony. In the nineteenth century, it was considered that the best [[Modern Standard Arabic|literary Arabic]] was spoken in the mountains of [[Daghestan]]. Daghestani [[Arabist]] scholars were famous, attracting students from the whole Muslim world. The ''lingua franca'' in Daghestan before the [[Russian Revolution|Revolution]] was [[Modern Standard Arabic|Arabic]]. Then, in the 1920s and 1930s, the main thrust of the [[USSR anti-religious campaign (1928–1941)|anti-religious campaign]], was to eradicate Arabic, a religious language, and replace it with Russian. The finest flower of Arabist scholarship disappeared in [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]'s [[Great Purge|purges]].|Bryan, p. 210<ref name=CHC2>{{cite book|last=Bryan|first=Fanny. E.B.|editor-last=Bennigsen-Broxup|editor-first=Marie|editor-link=Marie Bennigsen-Broxup|title=The North Caucasus Barrier: The Russian Advance Towards the Muslim World|year=1992|publisher=[[C. Hurst & Co.]]|isbn=9781850653059|page=210}}</ref>}}