Format:
Online-Ressource (234 p)
ISBN:
9780226674339
Content:
Chechnya, a 6,000-square-mile corner of the northern Caucasus, has struggled under Russian domination for centuries. The region declared its independence in 1991, leading to a brutal war, Russian withdrawal, and subsequent ""governance"" by bandits and warlords. A series of apartment building attacks in Moscow in 1999, allegedly orchestrated by a rebel faction, reignited the war, which continues to rage today. Russia has gone to great lengths to keep journalists from reporting on the conflict; consequently, few people outside the region understand its scale and the atrocities-described by
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CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: WHOSE TRUTH?; PROLOGUE; ORDINARY CHECHEN LIFE IN WARTIME; MODERN RUSSIAN LIFE AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE WAR; WHO WANTS THIS WAR?; EPILOGUE: LONDON, MAY 2002: AN ENDING WITHOUT CLOSURE; AFTERWORD: YELLOW ON BLACK
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226674346
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226674322
Additional Edition:
Print version A Small Corner of Hell : Dispatches from Chechnya
Language:
English
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