Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power
Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power
Writer: Anatol Lieven, Heidi Bradner
Photos: Heidi Bradner
Contributory: Heidi Bradner
Publisher: Yale University Press, 1999
ISBN 0300078811, 9780300078817
436 pages
In this major new work of history and analysis, Lieven sets Russia’s humiliation at the hands of a tiny group of badly organized guerrillas in a plausible framework for the first time. He offers both an eyewitness account of the war in Chechnya itself and a sophisticated and multifaceted explanation for the Russian defeat. Illustrations.
