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This extensively revised paperback edition explores at first-hand the extraordinary defeat of the Russian army in Chechnya and provides essential reading for all those concerned with current developments in the Caucasus. It puts one of the most savage wars of recent years into the context of the predominantly Moslem North Caucasus region. Fierce resistance meant that Russia took almost three centuries to conquer this mountainous area. And it remains the most turbulent and strategic part of the Russian Federation - an ethnic and geopolitical tinderbox criss-crossed by billion-dollar oil pipelin

Chechnya (Russia) -- Ethnic relations. --- Chechnya (Russia) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements. --- Chechnya (Russia) -- History -- Civil war, 1994. --- Russia (Federation) -- Ethnic relations. --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Russia & Former Soviet Republics