This article proposes and argues that the birth of concepts "Russian World" and "Russian Islam" - both important to the post-Soviet Russian ideological landscape - occurred not only under the influence of similar ideas and values, but also through the authorship of the same inte…
Much has been written over the years about the Muslim 'Murid movement and its leader Shamil, who resisted the Tsarist Russian expansion into Chechan and Daghestan for more than a quarter of a century. This new study, based on painstaking research in multilingual archives, offers…
Much has been written over the years about the Muslim 'Murid movement and its leader Shamil, who resisted the Tsarist Russian expansion into Chechan and Daghestan for more than a quarter of a century. This new study, based on painstaking research in multilingual archives, offers…
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.
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.
The struggle for Chechnya has come to international prominence in recent years through a string of high-profile atrocities. For the first time, Western, Russian and Chechen perspectives on the conflict are brought together. Experts from all sides of the crisis provide an insight…
"The only comprehensive treatment of the subject available in English, this book provides a ready introduction and practical guide to the Chechen people, and to some little known and rarely considered aspects of Chechen culture, including customs and traditions, folklore, arts a…
Many books have been written about the history of Chechnya, the political events precipitating the wars, the military operations, the terrorist attacks, the human rights abuses, and the trauma suffered by almost everyone involved in the conflict. What has yet to be published is …
Yossef Bodansky, one of the most respected--and best-informed--experts on radical Islamism in the world today, returns to alert readers to the future course of the struggle between Islamist extremism and the West, by turning the spotlight on the troubled region of Chechnya, whic…
