Russia and Chechnia: The Permanent Crisis : Essays on Russo-Chechen Relations

by Ben Fowkes (Editor)

Four essays, a chronology, and a substantial introduction explore relations between the two peoples. They trace the growth of mistrust and hostility since the middle of the 19th century, the rise of Chechen national feeling, and the culmination of the process in the armed struggle of the middle 1990s, which ended with at least provisional Chechen victory and independence. Along the way they look at the debate of Sheikh Shamil and the deportation of the Chechen and Ingush peoples in 1944. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

188 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1998

About the author

Ben Fowkes was for twenty-five years Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of North London. He has carried out archival research in Vienna, Munich, Bonn, Prague and Moscow. He is the author of several works on communist and post-communist history and politics, including The Rise and Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, The Disintegration of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe from Stalinism to Stagnation and The Post-Communist Era.