ABSTRACT
I have sought in this book to place the current Russo-Chechen confrontation within clear historical and cultural parameters while at the same time taking into account the realities of the post-9/11 world order in the twenty-first century. It is my hope that sufficient evidence has been produced for the reader to understand, if not share, my firm conviction that this conflict is related in many respects much more to longstanding unresolved cultural issues than it is to a worldwide ‘war on terror’, which has now been discredited in the eyes of so many.
