Chechnya

  • Chechnya: To the Heart of a Conflict
    By Andrew Meier

    See Dunlop, Russia Confronts Clzec/znya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict (Cambridge, U.K.: Cam— bridge University Press, 1998), pp. 58—61, who cites among others the Chechen historian Abdurahman Avtorkhanov.

  • Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad
    By James Hughes

    Second, related to the colonial experience, the contemporary conflict is seen as a serious fissure in a wider cultural conflict that is articulated in an essentialist form similar to Huntington's influential vision of the “clash of ...

  • Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus
    By Thomas de Waal, Carlotta Gall

    Recounts the story of the Chechens' struggle for independence and the Kremlin politics that precipitated it.

  • Chechnya: The Case for Independence
    By Tony Wood

    An eloquent case for independence for Europe's forgotten colony.Since the end of the Cold War, Chechnya has suffered two full-scale Russian military assaults, and is now in the seventh year...

  • Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power
    By Anatol Lieven

    In this new analysis Anatol Lieven offers a riveting account of the war as a means to explore the painful fate of the post-Soviet state.

  • Chechnya: Life in a War-Torn Society
    By Valery Tishkov

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  • Chechnya: To the Heart of a Conflict
    By Andrew Meier

    As Andrew Meier explains in this utterly compelling account, the most recent Chechen war actually broke out on New Year's Eve in 1994 when Boris Yeltsin sent hundreds of tanks to the center of the city of Grozny in an effort to quell ...

  • Chechnya: From Past to Future
    By Richard Sakwa

    A remarkable collection of essays, considering every angle of the Chechen conflict.

  • Chechnya: The History of the Chechen Republic and the Ongoing Conflict with Russia
    By Charles River Editors

    " - Norman Naimark Today, Chechnya is a republic with some degree of autonomy in the contemporary Russian Federation. Its population is just over a million people, and it stretches over an area of 17,000 square kilometers.

  • Chechnya: Life in a War-Torn Society
    By Valery Tishkov

    This book illuminates one of the world's most troubled regions from a unique perspective—that of a prominent Russian intellectual.

  • Chechnya: From Past to Future
    By Richard Sakwa

    The precarious position of Chechnya is one of the most important social and political situations of our times and this book should be of interest to anyone with an interest in the world we live in.

  • Chechnya: The Case for Independence
    By Tony Wood

    The Case for Chechnya sharply criticizes the role of Western nations in their struggle, and lays bare the weakness-and shamefulness-of the arguments used to deny the Chechens' right to sovereignty.

  • Chechnya: A Small Victorious War
    By Thomas de Waal, Carlotta Gall

    This book aims to explain these contradictory images and place them in their context, explaining the history of the region and its troubled relations with Russia.