The Chechen Wars

Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union?

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Matthew Evangelista

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Russia's brutal suppression of the Chechen revolts of the 1990s raised many questions about the nature of the Soviet Union's primary successor state. Both Russian presidents, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, have justified their invasions of Chechnya as necessary to prevent a breakup of the Russian Federation. In the wake of September 11th 2001, Moscow has emphasized its characterization of the war as an "anti-terrorist operation" in an effort to deflect criticisms of the widespread human rights abuses and atrocities that have accompanied its military occupation. In this text, Evangelista challenges Moscow's justifications for the Chechen invasions by exploring the sources of both wars and the implications for Russia's internal coherence and international standing. Evangelista draws on a wide range of sources to reconstruct the complicated origins of Chechnya's conflicts with Moscow and trace the courses of action that led to all-out Russian invasions in 1994 and 1999. He identifies the complex struggles over political power and strategic resources as the sources of both wars, not the threat that Chechen separatism would lead to Soviet-style disintegration of the country.

Author Biography:

Matthew Evangelista is professor of government and director of the Peace Studies Program at Cornell University. He is the author of the award-winning Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War (Cornell University Press).

Release date NZ

November 12th, 2002

Author

Matthew Evangelista

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

260

Dimensions

152x228x16

ISBN-13

9780815724995

Product ID

6490423

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