Ilyas Akhmadov & Miriam Lanskoy, The Chechen Struggle, Independence Won and Lost. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 288 pages

Abstract

Ilyas Akhmadov and Miriam Lanskoy's, The Chechen Struggle, Independence Won and Lost (Palgrave Macmillan 2010) is a unique insider's look at how Chechen politics have developed since the fall of the Soviet Union. The book provides a truly stirring portrayal of Chechnya's evolution and internal machinations from the early 1990s to 2007, on the basis of the memoires of Ilyas Akhmadov, who was involved in the resistance movement, then in politics as Maskhadov's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Give...