ABSTRACT
The Russia-Chechen wars have had an extraordinarily destructive impact on the communities and on the trajectories of personal lives in the North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya. This book presents in-depth analysis of the Chechen conflicts and their consequences on Chechen society. It discusses the nature of the violence, examines the dramatic changes which have taken place in society, in the economy and in religion, and surveys current developments, including how the conflict is being remembered and how Chechnya is reconstructed and governed.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|73 pages
Traces of war
chapter 1|18 pages
Grozny as it was before the war
Remembrance and reconciliation in “virtual” and “real” post-Soviet communities
chapter 2|21 pages
Remembering and forgetting in Chechnya today
Using the Great Patriotic War to create a new historical narrative
chapter 3|18 pages
Victims and heroes
Commemorating the Russian military casualties in the Chechen conflicts
part 2|108 pages
State and non-state rationales of violence
chapter 8|24 pages
Between war experience and ordinary police rationales
State violence against civilians in post-war Chechen Republic
chapter 9|23 pages
The North Caucasus insurgency
Understanding the Chechen rebels in the context of the Caucasus Emirate
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part 3|75 pages
The impact of war on Chechen society
chapter 12|20 pages
Virtue campaign for women in Chechnya under Ramzan Kadyrov
Between war backlash effect and desire for total control
