"Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Chechen War to the two military incursions into Georgia, the annexation of Crimea and the eventual invasi…
Since the end of the Cold War, Chechnya has suffered two full-scale Russian military assaults. In this argument for Chechen self-determination, Tony Wood considers Russo-Chechen relations, as well as the fate of the region since the fall of the Soviet Union.
"More than a collection of articles and columns, A Small Corner of Hell offers a rare insider's view of life in Chechnya over the past years, augmented by a richly informed introduction by Chechnya authority Georgi Derluguian that explains the region's tangled relationship to Ru…
"Legend has it that when God created the world, he scattered nations over the globe. When he came to the Caucasus, however, he dropped his shaker and spilt a mixture of every race over the mountains and valleys. Ancient travellers called the Caucasus the mountain of languages. G…
"This book offers the first systematic analysis of Putin's two wars, placing the Second Chechen war and the War with Georgia of 2008 in their broader historical contexts. Drawing on extensive original Russian sources, Marel H. Van Herpen analyzes in detail how Putin's wars were …
"While the collapse of communism in Russia was relatively peaceful, ethnic relations have been deteriorating since then. This deterioration poses a threat to the functioning of the Russian state and is a major obstacle to its future development. Analysing ethnic relations in the…
I en række reportager fra juli 1999 til januar 2001 skildrer Anna Politkovskaya krigen i Tjetjenien
"In a series of despatches from July 1999 to January 2001 [the author] vividly describes the atrocities and abuses of the war ..."--Cover.
