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Chechnya: The Inside Story

August 11, 2019

Chechnya: The Inside Story
Author: Mairbek Vatchagaev
Paperback: 267 pages
Publisher: Open Books (5 Aug. 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1948598175
ISBN-13: 978-1948598170

Mairbek Vatchagaev, the former press secretary and first adviser to Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov, chronicles the dramatic events that took place in Chechnya during the 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Russian-Chechen war against the Chechnya’s independence. Engaged on one side of the Russian-Chechen conflict, he presents what he witnessed, how he became involved, how the struggle with Russia and the internal Chechen rivalries evolved, and how it impacted his family, his friends, his acquaintances, and the Chechen people.

About Author :

Mairbek Vatchagaev is a Chechen historian and political analyst on the North Caucasus and was a senior ranking official in the Chechen government of Aslan Maskhadov.

Vatchagaev has published numerous articles on the history of Chechnya and politics in the North Caucasus and Russia. He has extensively contributed to the Jamestown publication “Eurasia Daily Monitor” about developments in the North Caucasus. He is the author of five boks on the history and religion of the North Caucasus, including Chechnya in the 19th Century Caucasian Wars.

He is also the co-editor-in-chief of the Caucasus Survey (London, UK), and he co-edits an online magazine Prometheus (Paris, France). Vatchagaev serves as the President of the Caucasian Studies Association (Paris, France).

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