Chechnya: A Small Victorious War - Softcover

De Waal, Thomas; Gall, Carlotta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330350757 ISBN 13: 9780330350754

Publisher: Picador, 1997

Synopsis

In Chechnya: A Small Victorious War Carlotta Gall and Thomas de Waal tell the full story of how the Kremlin came to embark on such an ill-judged military adventure and how the Chechen fighters fought back. Switching between Chechnya and Moscow, the authors cover the whole sweep of the war from the horrendous destruction of the Russian invasion to the Chechens’ dramatic retaliation to force the Russian army out.

The book traces the roots of the conflict: the Chechens’ history of resistance to the Russian empire, the rogue state set up by the eccentric general-turned-president Jokhar Dudayev as the Soviet Union fell apart, and the Kremlin court politics that precipitated the decision to invade Chechnya.

With its exclusive material and eye-witness reporting, Chechnya: A Small Victorious War is the definitive account of the most tragic and extraordinary story to emerge from the end of the Soviet Union. It is also the story of the flamboyant, anarchic and unyielding Chechens and their struggle for survival.

About this title

Book Description:

President Boris Yeltsin expected a swift victory in December 1994 when he sent in troops to crush the rebel republic of Chechnya’s bid for independence. One of his advisers even promised a ‘small victorious war’. Instead the invasion turned into one of the bloodiest conflicts of modern times and two years later it was the Russian army that left in defeat, humbled by a tiny Chechen guerrilla force.

About the Author:

Thomas de Waal is a writer and scholar on the Caucasus and Black Sea region and currently Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of three books, including The Caucasus: An Introduction and Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus. From 1991 to 2000, de Waal worked as a newspaper journalist in Moscow and for the BBC World Service in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0330350757
• ISBN 13: 9780330350754
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 9999