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The Chechen Wars in Historical Perspective: New Work on Contemporary Russian-Chechen Relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Austin Jersild
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Slavic Review , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , Summer 2004 , pp. 367 - 377
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 2004

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1. Organized by Anthony Anemone, chair of the Department of Foreign Languages, this symposium took place on 4-6 April 2003. For comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of this article, I am grateful to audiences at the Center for Regional and Global Studies at Old Dominion University, the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., and the Russian and East European Center and its Summer Research Lab at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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31. Troshev, Moia voina, 379-80.

32. Ibid., 331.

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38. Evangelista, The Chechen Wars, 63.

39. For an effort to compare Russia's road to war from 1991-94 to the policies of General A. P. Ermolov in the early nineteenth century, see Shakhrudin Gapurov, “Metody kolonial'noi politiki tsarizma v Chechne v pervoi polovine xix veka,” in Furman, ed., Chechnia i Rossiia, 113-27.

40. An account from a Russian-French journalist suggestive of the drama and excitement of the romantic writing of colonialism is Anne Nivat, Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya, trans. Susan Darn ton (New York, 2001). She disguises herself as a Chechen woman and recounts several somewhat unlikely interviews with Shamil Basaev and Khattab.

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42. On mountain social structure in the nineteenth century, see Said-Akhmed Isaev, “Krest'ianstvo i sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoe razvitie Chechni v xviii-seredine xix veka,” in Furman, ed., Chechnia i Rossiia, 102-12; on the history of language use and transcription, see Zulai Khamidova, “Bor'ba za iazyk (Problemy stanovleniia i razvitiia Chechenskogo iazyka),” in Furman, ed., Chechnia i Rossiia, 128-49.

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