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.
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 ...
Recounts the story of the Chechens' struggle for independence and the Kremlin politics that precipitated it.
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...
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.
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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 ...
A remarkable collection of essays, considering every angle of the Chechen conflict.
" - 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.
This book illuminates one of the world's most troubled regions from a unique perspective—that of a prominent Russian intellectual.
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.
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.
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.