Chechen-Russian Conflict

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Discusses historical legacy of Chechen-Russian relations. Stalin & USSR policy. Growth of nationalism & ethnic independence. President Yeltsin & 1994 Russian invasion of Chechnya & the ensuing war. Politics & objectives of Dudayev's regime & establishment of free economic zone in Chechen. Yeltin's economic blocade. Chechen gangs. Unpopularity of Chechen War in Russia.

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"?In the Caucasian Wars of the nineteenth century "the policy chosen was one of total attack, leaving the natives no option but to resist as desperately as they could" (Gall and De Waal 50).


Since the late eighteenth century dozens of Russian military campaigns have been launched against the tiny North Caucasian region of Chechnya and its neighbors. Throughout that span of time the struggles between Russians and Chechens have produced extraordinary efforts of both resistance and repression. In the nineteenth century Imam Shamil, in 25 years of resistance against the Tsars, waged what is probably the longest guerrilla war in history. The Chechen people revolted against the Soviet state more frequently than any other people, and the struggle included "uprisings in 1922, 1924 and 1925 and continued well into the 1930s (Lapidus 8). In the 1940s Stalin, fearful of Chechen..."

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