With a Preface by Mark Kramer. — Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 274 p. — ISBN: 978-1-137-33878-5. "Contemporary Russian historians, specialists on the North Caucasus region and general readers will discover much useful information in this volume containing unique audio tapes made during the period July 2000-March 2003 by Chechen separatist president Aslan Maskhadov. Relentlessly...
Foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski. — Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 270 p. — ISBN 978–0–230–10534–8. The Russian-Chechen war has been the longest, cruelest, and bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II, surpassing even the level of destruction of Bosnia and Kosovo. Told from the perspective of its former Foreign Minister, this uniquely candid account of Chechnya’s struggle...
Kraków: Wydawnictwo Arcana, 1997. — 109 str. — ISBN: 83-86225-51-3. The book contains many rare photographs from the period of the First Chechen War. Wydawnictwo Arcana składa podziękowania Wydziałowi Kultury Urzędu Miasta Krakowa, którego wsparcie finansowe przyczyniło się do urzeczywistnienia zamysłu tego albumu. Wyraża także serderczne podziękowanie Panu Stanisławowi...
Grove Press, 2009. — 416 p. — ISBN: 978-0802144034. A vivid, autobiographical account of what life was like for a young soldier in Russia's Chechen wars, Arkady Babchenko provides an unsparing, unsentimental, blackly comic and brutally beautiful account of active duty.
Fort Leavenworth: Foreign Military Studies Office, 2012. — 160 p. Books on guerrilla war are seldom written from the tactical perspective and from the guerrilla’s perspective. Fangs of the Lone Wolf: is an exception. These are the stories of low-level guerrilla combat as told by the survivors. They cover fighting from the cities of Grozny and Argun to the villages of Bamut and...
HarperCollins e-books, 2007. — 442 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-155618-0. In this authoritative look at the roots of modern terrorism, Yossef Bodansky, one of the most respected — and best-informed — experts on radical Islamism in the world today, pinpoints the troubled region of Chechnya as a dangerous and little-understood crucible of terror in the struggle between East and West. In...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 96 p. — (Series: Essential Histories (Book 78) Featuring specially drawn full-color mapping and drawing upon a wide range of sources, this succinct account explains the origins, history and consequences of Russia's wars in Chechnya, thereby shedding new light on the history - and prospects - of that troubled region. Mark Galeotti, an expert on the...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 284 p. — (Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity). Terror in Chechnya is the definitive account of Russian war crimes in Chechnya. Emma Gilligan provides a comprehensive history of the second Chechen conflict of 1999 to 2005, revealing one of the most appalling human rights catastrophes of the modern era--one that has yet to be fully...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 234 p. — ISBN: 0-521-63619. In this book John Dunlop provides an understanding of the background to the Russian invasion of Chechnya in December 1994, tracing events from 4,000 BC to the time of the invasion. The historic encounter between Chechens and Russians, first during pre-Petrine and then with imperial Russia, is carefully examined....
Warszawa: Oficyna Wydawnicza Volumen, 1998. — ISBN: 83-7233-096-4. A book by Polish journalist Miroslav Kuleba about the First Chechen War. The author spent eight months among Dudayev's militants. Kuleba witnessed the battle for Grozny in 1995, Raduev's raid on Kizlyar and the subsequent battle of Pervomaisky, battles in the mountainous areas near Shatoi and Operation Jihad in...
Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1998. — 436 p. — ISBN 0-300-07398-4. The war between Russia and the Chechen separatist forces, from December 1994 to August 1996, was a key moment in Russian and even world history, shedding a stark light on the end of Russia as a great military and imperial power. Anatol Lieven, a distinguished writer and political commentator, was...
Brookings Institution Press, 2002. — 244 p. — ISBN: 0-8157-2499-3. Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin improvised a system of "asymmetric federalism" to help maintain its successor state, the Russian Federation. However, when sparks of independence flared up in Chechnya, Yeltsin and, later, Vladimir Putin chose military action to deal with a "brushfire"...
This report examines military airstrikes and ground operations that Russia launched against. its Chechnya region in late September 1999. It provides background information on earlier. Chechen guerrilla attacks on the neighboring Dagestan region of Russia and on the unsolved. terrorist bombing of several apartment buildings in Russia. Current problems of governance. in Chechnya...
RAND, 2001. — 102 p. — ISBN: 0-8330-2998-3. This report provides an analysis of Russian combat in Chechnya beginning with the first modern Chechen war of 1994–1996 and comparing and contrasting it with the ongoing conflict that began in 1999. While the focus is on combat in urban areas, more general aspects of the Chechnya wars are also discussed. The research reported here was...
Translated by Alexander Burry and Tatiana Tulchinsky; with an introduction by Georgi Derluguian. — The University of Chicago Press, 2003. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0-226-67432-0. The recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya is grim evidence of the danger faced by journalists passionately committed to writing the truth about wars and politics. A longtime critic of the Russian government,...
Praeger Security International, 2010. — 303 p. — ISBN: 978-0-313-38634-3. Winner of a Kirkus Star, multiple awards, and named to numerous "best of" lists, The Insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus: From Gazavat to Jihad is the most acclaimed book to have ever been written on the subject and helps both the average reader and the seasoned analyst make sense of the...
Routledge, 2007. — 247 p. — ISBN: 978-0-415-38064-5 — (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies, Book 34). The Russo-Chechen wars represent the bloodiest conflict in Europe since the Second World War. Making international headlines only after some ‘terrorist spectacular’, the conflict remains unresolved, despite President Putin’s claim to have ‘normalised’...
Revised paperback edition. — I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2001. — 288 p. — ISBN: 1-86064-651-4. A mixture of travelogue, history and war journalism, Allah's Mountains tells the story of the conflict between this nation of mountain tribes and the might of the Russian army. It is also a story of the history, people and cultures of the Caucasus and of tiny ethnic groups struggling for...
Texas A&M University Press, 1999. — 384 p. — ISBN: 978-0890968567 — (Eugenia & Hugh M. Stewart '26 Series on Eastern Europe; Book 8). The recent war in Chechnya, despite all the media coverage, remains a confusing tangle for many people. The war was the result of many conflicting political, economic, judicial, and military issues that had been fermenting for decades. Only the...
With a foreword by Mikhail S. Gorbachev. — University of California Press, 2004. — 284 p. — (California Series in Public Anthropology; Book 6). — ISBN 0–520–23888–5. This book illuminates one of the world's most troubled regions from a unique perspective — that of a prominent Russian intellectual. Valery Tishkov, a leading ethnographer who has also served in several important...
RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. — 246 p. — ISBN 0–415–29720–6. Widespread media interest into the Chechen conflict reflects an ongoing concern about the evolution of federal Russia. Why did the Russian leadership initiate military action against Chechnya in December 1994 but against no other constituent part of the Federation? This study demonstrates that the Russian invasion...
Comments