The Chechens: A Handbook

by Amjad Jaimoukha

(contributions by the distinguished literary figure JonArno Lawson)

 

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Book reviews, commendations & citations:

Albert, Craig Douglas, ‘Identity and Violence: Analyzing Ethnic Group Behavior in Conflict’, presented to Northeastern Political Science Association (APSA) 2008, [Panel: Ethnic Violence, Humanitarian Intervention and Human Rights, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut,] Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, 28 August 2008. Online. Available HTTP: <http://www.allacademic.com/one/www/research/index.php?cmd=Download+Document&key=unpublished_manuscript&file_index=2&pop_up=true&no_click_key=true&attachment_style=attachment&PHPSESSID=8763e956e5d3afb984f2f5099fab4663> (accessed 11 February 2009).

Bakke, K. M., ‘Separatist Struggles and Center-Region Relations in Chechnya, Punjab, and Québec’, paper presented at The Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence, Yale University, 5 March 2008. Online. Available HTTP: <http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/ocvprogram/papers/Bakke_OCV.pdf> (accessed 24 July 2008). [Citation]

Banner, Francine, ‘Uncivil Wars: “Suicide Bomber Identity” as a Product of Russo-Chechen Conflict’, in Religion, State & Society, vol. 34, no. 3, September 2006, pp 215-53. [Citation]

Bulur, Latife, ‘Chechnya: Human Rights Issues’, in Human Rights & Human Welfare: An International Review of Books and Other Publications, Review Digest: Human Rights & the War on Terror, 2007 Supplement S-4. Online. Available HTTP: <http://www.du.edu/gsis/hrhw/digest/terror/chechnya_2007.pdf> (accessed 23 July 2008). [Review]

Comins-Richmond, Walter, 'Review of The Chechens: A Handbook', in Slavic & East European Journal, vol. 50, no. 2, 2006, pp 374-6.

Directie Personenverkeer, Migratie- en Vreemdelingenzaken Afdeling Asiel- en Migratiezaken, Algemeen ambtsbericht noordelijke Kaukasus, April 2007. Online. Available HTTP: <http://www.minbuza.nl/binaries/pdf/ambtsberichten/2007/aab-noordelijke-kaukasus-19-06-2007.pdf> (accessed 24 July 2008). [Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs’s Country Report on the North Caucasus]

George, Julie Alynn, Separatism or Federalism? Ethnic Conflict and Resolution in Russia and Georgia, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, August 2005. Online. Available HTTP: <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2005/georgej75009/georgej75009.pdf> (accessed 23 July 2008). [Citation]

Gould, Rebecca, ‘The Chechens: Against Resistance’, in Transitions Online, 25 April 2006. Online. Available HTTP: <http://www.tol.cz/look/TOL/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=163&NrSection=2&NrArticle=16814> (accessed 23 July 2008). [Commendation] 

Norwegian Country of Origin Information Centre (The), Landinfo Temanotat: Russland: Ingusjetia, 1 November 2007. Online. Available HTTP: <http://www.landinfo.no/asset/646/1/646_1.pdf> (accessed 24 July 2008). [Citation]

— Landinfo Temanotat: Russland: Ingusjetia, 10 April 2008. Online. Available HTTP: <http://www.landinfo.no/asset/699/1/699_1.pdf> (accessed 24 July 2008). [Citation] 

Prague Watchdog, ‘Select Bibliography of Chechnya-Related Works’, in Prague Watchdog (Reporting on the Conflict in the North Caucasus), 26 September 2007. Online. Available HTTP: <http://www.watchdog.cz/?show=000000-000015-000008-000001&lang=1> (accessed 23 July 2008). ['A comprehensive survey of the history, culture and religious traditions of the Chechen people, including an account of the short-lived Chechen film industry, the images of Chechens propagated by Russian and Western media, and a section of Chechen proverbs and sayings'] 

Sakwa, Richard, Chechnya: From Past to Future, Anthem Press, 2005. [Citation] 

Slye, Sarah E., Why Does War Rage on in Chechnya?, MA Thesis, Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. [Citation] 

Suburban Emergency Management Project (SEMP), ‘Chechnya: Chaos of Human Geography in the North Caucasus, 484 BC-1957 AD’, in SEMP Biot Report, no. 479, 18 November 2007. Online. Available HTTP: <http://www.semp.us/publications/biot_reader.php?BiotID=479> (accessed 24 July 2008). [Citation]

— ‘Crescendo to Beslan School Massacre, 1953-2004 in Chechnya’, in SEMP Biot Report, no. 480, 21 November 2007. Online. Available HTTP: <http://www.semp.us/publications/biot_reader.php?BiotID=480> (accessed 24 July 2008). [Citation] 

 Toledano, Ehud R., As If Silent and Absent: Bonds of Enslavement in the Islamic Middle East, Yale University Press, 2007. [Citation] 

Wood, Tony, Chechnya: The Case for Independence, Verso, 2007. Online. Available HTTP: <http://www.chechenpress.co.uk/content/2008/03/16/Chechnya_The_Case_for_Independence.pdf> (accessed 24 July 2008). ['The book contains much material that is rarely found in English-language works, and its chapters on Chechen culture are particularly valuable' – note 1, p12]

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