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This dissertation explores the fate of ethnic groups internally deported by the Soviet leadership during the Second World War. Known collectively in the literature as "The Punished Peoples", the Russian Germans, Karachays, Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingush, Balkars, and Crimean Tatars w…

How and by what means are states able to preserve their territorial integrity despite strong challenges from periphereal border regions? In order to answer this question my dissertation focuses on Russia's wars in Chechnya (1994-2002) and Turkey's Kurdish insurgency (1984-1999).…